We need to preserve the database of network interfaces while we
rename them. Use the kernel's numbers wherever possible, instead
of the device names.
Fix wrong database filenames which contain a '/', translated
from '!' in the kernel name.
Fix segfault for kobject pathes where the subsystem can not be
determined from sysfs.
Renaming network devices might delay events for the other device, which has
the same devpath in the meantime as the original event. Causing a delay until
the timout of the event is reached.
Look at the ifindex/devnum of the devices to check if they are really
the same devices.
We can not predict the major/minor of non-existing devices:
$ grep . /sys/class/block/sd*/dev
/sys/class/block/sda1/dev:259:524288
/sys/class/block/sda2/dev:259:262144
/sys/class/block/sda3/dev:259:786432
/sys/class/block/sda4/dev:259:131072
/sys/class/block/sda/dev:259:0
/sys/class/block/sdb/dev:259:655360
/sys/class/block/sdc/dev:259:393216
If this functionality is still needed for some broken hardware, it needs to be
solved with a tool not part of the udev package. Because such option is unreliable
and unsafe to use.
With well defined and kernel-supplied node names, we no longer need
to support a possible stack of conflicting symlinks and node names.
Only symlinks with identical names can be claimed by multiple devices.
This shrinks the former /dev/.udev/names/ significantly.
Also the /dev/{block,char}/MAJ:MIN" links are excluded from the name
stack - they are unique and can not conflict.
With very deeply nested devices, We can not use a single file
name to carry an entire DEVPATH. Use <subsystem>:<sysname> as
the database filename, which should also simplify the handling
of devices moving around, as these values will not change but
still be unique.
For the name stack we use the <maj>:<min> now as the filename.
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:59:56AM -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> The first is that udev grumbles during boot about "file name too long"
> like the following:
>
> Aug 17 06:49:58 megadeth udevd-event[20447]: unable to create db file
> '/dev/.udev/db/\x2fdevices\x2fpci0000:00\x2f0000:00:04.0\x2f0000:17:00.0\x2f0000:18:0a.0\x2f0000:1f:00.0\x2fhost11\x2fport-11:0\x2fexpander-11:0\x2fport-11:0:0\x2fexpander-11:1\x2fport-11:1:0\x2fexpander-11:2\x2fport-11:2:17\x2fexpander-11:3\x2fport-11:3:1\x2fend_device-11:3:1\x2fbsg\x2fend_device-11:3:1':
> File name too long
Fix spelling in docbook comments, code comments, and a local variable
name. Thanks to "ispell -h" for docbook HTML and "scspell" for source
code.
Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
