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DateFri, 21 Nov 2003 00:18:38 -0500
FromBill Nottingham <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] All my Pcmcia cards are 'eth0'
Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de) said: 
> > There are some situations where you have to jump through hoops
> > because it can't atomically swap two device names (i.e.,
> > eth0 <-> eth1, but the code itself seems to work ok in use here...
> 
> Adding such swapping should not be very hard if someone is motivated.
> Interestingly you're the first to complain about it missing...

When I looked at it, I assumed it was a limitation of the
kernel interface, in that it only operated on one device at
a time... or are you talking about just doing the switch in
nameif itself with a temporary device name?

Bill
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