[PATCH] Fix naming ethernet devices in udevstart

[PATCH] Fix naming ethernet devices in udevstart

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:46:43PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 20:18 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > I noticed somewhat recently that my enet devices weren't being renamed
> > on boot anymore.  I don't quite know when this got broken (or rather, if
> > it was supposed to be working.  I swear it worked for me once..), but
> > the following seems to do it.
>
> I think it never worked in the udevstart case. It worked only with the
> hotplug-event-udev, I expect.
>
> > In udev_scan_class(), look for not just
> > %s/%s/dev (which everything with a dev node has), but %s/%s/dev* (both
> > of my enet devices, sis900 & 3c59x only have device) and if that
> > exists, pass this along to udev.
>
> Yeah, network devices don't have a devnode and therefore no "dev", but
> they are all in /sys/class/net/. We may just test if we are there
> instead of the "device" match.

How about something like this. It adds all the net devices without
looking at the attributes and keeps the remaining logic like it is.

It also removes certain levels of indirection and much simplifies the
udevstart process. We surely don't need to open and close the udevdb
for every node while iterating over the list. (We are about 5% faster on
my box)

It's not well tested, so it would be nice if someone can have a look
at it, before a broken udevstart renders any system unbootable.