From now on we call modprobe in /etc/udev/rules.d/80-driver.rules
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372058
User mt@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372058#c1
Marius Tomaschewski changed:
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CC| |mt@novell.com
Status|NEW |NEEDINFO
Info Provider| |zoz@novell.com
--- Comment #1 from Marius Tomaschewski 2008-03-18 08:47:48 MST ---
No, the README file is not missed - it is obsolete and the ifup.8
manual page needs a review & update (this hint has to be removed).
Added Christan to NEEDINFO: Christian, can you correct me if I'm
wrong please?
Here some informations about the persistent interface name changes:
There are two significant changes in sysconfig package:
- /sbin/getcfg removed
- /sbin/hw{up,down,status} removed
getcfg
^^^^^^
Since some time we provide persistent network interface names.
Therefore we don't need to work with hardware descriptions in network
setup scripts. From now on we will name network configuration files
again ifcfg-<interface> and nothing else.
/sbin/getcfg/ was formerly necessary
- to get the current interface name from a hardware description
-> obsolete
- to find the right configuration file
-> obsolete
- to provide information about the device/interface
-> obsolete (sysfs has improved in between)
- to do some special tricks on S390
-> will move into some S390-package
There are still some other packages which use getcfg. If you are
maintainer of such an package please remove getcfg from it. For
possible configuration files that contain hardware descriptions i will
provide a conversion tool. Just contact me in such a case or for other
questions.
hwup
^^^^
directly. hwup is no longer used and therefore all hwcfg-* files are
obsolete. Since most of these configs contain just the default driver
we don't convert them. They will just be dropped.
If some device needs some special driver, this may be configured in
udev rules more flexible then before.
Module options belong to modprobe.conf. It was a big mistake that they
could ever be written in hwcfg-*.
Manual device control is provided by sysfs:
- to release a device:
echo -n <device id> > /sys/bus/*/drivers/*/unbind
- to activate a device:
echo -n add > /sys/devices/..../uevent
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