On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:51:59 +0100 Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:23:57 +0000 > schrieb Neil Bothwick <n...@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.
