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Bug#238979: marked as done (ip1394 not needed and causing trouble)

Your message dated Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:30:31 +0200
with message-id <20080913223031.GH12288@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org>
and subject line network device names are userspace policy
has caused the Debian Bug report #238979,
regarding ip1394 not needed and causing trouble
to be marked as done.

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Package: hotplug
Version: 0.0.20040311-8

With the packaged 2.6.4 kernels on ia64, the presence of a firewire card in
the system with nothing attached to it is enough to cause the driver stack
including ip1394 to be loaded by hotplug... *before* e1000 gets loaded.  This
causes eth0 to be assigned to the firewire channel instead of the system 
primary NIC, with predictable results.

My short-term hack was to add e1000 to /etc/mkinitrd/modules and regenerate
the initrd, which causes the e1000 driver to load very early and win the race
to claim eth0...  I've also been told about nameif which is an interesting way
to work around changing eth* names.

However, I really don't understand why the whole firewire module stack is being
loaded when there is nothing attached to the interface card at all?  Can we
have that not happen by default?

Bdale

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reassign 238979 linux-2.6
thanks

Network device names are userspace policy and nowadays handled by udev.
No kernel bug, closing.

Bastian

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