Package: udev
Version: 0.105-4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hello,
recent UML kernels are randomizing the mac address of internal network
interfaces resulting in udev creating new rules at each uml boot, eg:
# Unknown net device (/class/net/eth0) (uml-netdev)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="2a:36:dc:01:1c:1f",
NAME="eth0"
# Unknown net device (/class/net/eth0) (uml-netdev)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="3e:3a:ba:ee:6c:e3",
NAME="eth1"
This breaks automatically configured interfaces and since it makes
little sense to continually create new names (will udev overflow?) the
attached little patch makes udev ignore uml network devices.
Could you please consider applying such patch?
Thanks
Mattia
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-rc7-mm2-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.5-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries
ii libvolume-id0 0.105-4 libvolume_id shared library
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
udev recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
udev/new_kernel_needed: false
udev/reboot_needed:
--- persistent-net-generator.rules.clean 2007-05-07 21:08:36.273466785
+0900
+++ persistent-net-generator.rules 2007-05-07 21:09:13.275575415 +0900
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
ACTION!="add", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="net", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"
+# ignore uml interfaces
+DRIVER=="uml-netdev", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"
+
# ignore the interface if a name has already been set
NAME=="?*", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"
