[gentoo-user] Re: udev-197 and /etc/udev/rules.d/

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On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:51:59 +0100
Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de> wrote:

> Am Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:23:57 +0000
> schrieb Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>:
> 
> > ISTR a change in udev that prevented renaming devices. Put it all as
> > symlinks instead of renaming and trying to symlink back to %k. It
> > seems that all the replies with working examples do it this way too.

That works, thanks.

[snip]
 
> So currently you can only change network interface names, and nothing
> else.
> 
> [0] I haven't searched extensively, but found a related Email from
> Greg K-H (search for "rename") that points out that device node
> renaming has problematic/fragile behaviour:
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1010.1/00427.html.
> 
> [1]
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/device-drivers/API-device-rename.html
> (documentation generated from linux-3.0-rc7). Relevant quote: "Device
> nodes are not renamed at all, there isn't even support for that in
> the kernel now."

Thanks for the discussion (snipped) and the links.  Something Greg K-H
said about kernel names reminded me that I've been meaning to stop
using them in fstab as well.

I've been a Gentoo user for twelve years, and I've learned a lot --
including some bad habits, heh.