Re: [PATCH] All my Pcmcia cards are 'eth0'

[Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>]

Bill Nottingham wrote :
> 
> Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de) said: 
> > > There are some situations where you have to jump through hoops
> > > because it can't atomically swap two device names (i.e.,
> > > eth0 <-> eth1, but the code itself seems to work ok in use here...
> > 
> > Adding such swapping should not be very hard if someone is motivated.
> > Interestingly you're the first to complain about it missing...
> 
> When I looked at it, I assumed it was a limitation of the
> kernel interface, in that it only operated on one device at
> a time... or are you talking about just doing the switch in
> nameif itself with a temporary device name?

	Have you tried with nameif running from hotplug ? I'm sure
that would fix your problem, because the first device would be renamed
before the second would even be created (but you may want to test).
	That's probably a second reason why running nameif from
hotplug is the right way forward.

> Bill

	Jean