[systemd-devel] renamed link

[Pascal]

note that it's about version 210 (year 2014)

2017-05-19 16:04 GMT+02:00 Pascal <patatetom at gmail.com>:

> hi Lennart,
>
> I read this on https://coreos.com/blog/intro-to-systemd-networkd.html :
>
> *"Also, we should note that networkd is only made aware of new network
> devices after udev has applied its low-level settings to them, so we can
> safely match on the new MACAddress and Name that udev has set for our
> device."*
>
> if I understand correctly, systemd-networkd operates in a second time, so
> that we can safely use the new name given by udevd.
> I can't find this information in the systemd / udevd documentation : is
> this information correct ?
>
> regards, lacsaP.
>
> 2017-05-19 11:23 GMT+02:00 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
>
>> On Fri, 19.05.17 09:02, Pascal (patatetom at gmail.com) wrote:
>>
>> > is udev responsible for linking the system with the hardware?
>> > in this case, why does renaming not take place at the very first level ?
>> > which would make new name available for all other levels...
>>
>> renaming takes place as part of the udev rule processing, and clients
>> listeing to udev events will be notified only after the renaming took
>> place.
>>
>> Lennart
>>
>> --
>> Lennart Poettering, Red Hat
>>
>
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