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

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Nov 21 2003 - 00:18:12 EST


Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> 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...

-Andi (who wrote nameif originally)
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