rawhide report: 20070127 changes
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Jan 29 16:41:38 UTC 2007
Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said:
> > > I think Bill said it kept reordering network devices. Missing symlinks and
> > > such.
> >
> > That kernel option should have nothing to do with network devices for
> > the 2.6.19 kernel release, so I would be very supprised if it changed
> > anything.
>
> For the kernel in question, this was 2.6.20rc5.
> (I don't think the option even existed back in .19 ?)
The code that we have that writes the initial network configuration
that maps mac addresses <-> device names (so that we handle modules
loaded in arbitrary order) associates network devices with physical
devices by following net:XXXX symlinks in /sys/bus/pci/devices/XXX,
/sys/bus/pcmcia/devices/XXXX, /sys/bus/xen/devices/XXX, etc.
The new code (that removes those links) breaks this hard, and
rearchitecting everything to have a second pass that walks /sys/class/net/XXX
links and associates them with already probed/discovered devices
is not something I'm doing at this stage of the freeze.
Bill
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