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[Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org>]

On Friday 14 April 2006 13:32, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:57:53AM +0200, Mads Laursen wrote:
<slice>
> > The reason I'm suggesting this is, that I think it would be a lot
> > nicer to keep all the network(-card) config in /etc/sysconfig/network
> > instead of spreading it out over more files. And the format is also
> > simple enough that something like netconf actually works quite nicely.
>
> That is possible with udev, udev rules can call out to a program to
> determine the name for a device. Sounds like a good idea to me.

How would an external program export a variable back to udev-space to be used 
with NAME=? I'm still a bit skeptical, but interested.

While we can of course work on that option and switch to using it later, I've 
just submitted an edit to udev to test. It's a script which binds network 
device MAC addresses to their currently assigned interface names. It's of 
course optional and defaults to n. It's not the most elegant solution, but it 
works.

Juuso