Subject: Re: is it a backwards compatability catch-22?

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:38:16 -0700

> The udev stuff runs after the device has already chosen it's default name.
> It has to, it's part of the hotplug infrastructure, and we don't want
> to depend on usermode to define the name.  Just choose some other
> convention "eth_0"  or something like that.

Is that because adding another NIC at a later time might cause it to 
grab ethN out from under what I'm trying to do with udev?

rick jones