[systemd-devel] renamed link

Pascal patatetom at gmail.com
Fri May 19 14:09:08 UTC 2017


and I'm running/testing on version 232

2017-05-19 16:06 GMT+02:00 Pascal <patatetom at gmail.com>:

> 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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