Re: A rule gets applied only after running `udevadm test`

Rogutės Sparnuotos <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hotplug.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2012.03.05 01:48, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 22:00, Rogutės Sparnuotos<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> I have 2 custom rules to rename network interfaces:
>>
>> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{address}=="00:1f:d0:5a:7d:48",
>> NAME="eth_int"
>> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{address}=="00:50:22:e9:7d:09",
>> NAME="eth1"
>>
>> But they aren't triggered on boot (although another rule from the same
>> file is applied). Now if I run
>>
>> $ udevadm test --action=add \
>> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:04:00.0/net/eth1
>>
>> $ udevadm test --action=add \
>> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:05:01.0/net/eth0
>>
>> the interfaces get renamed. What could I do to make these rules work on
>> boot? Could this be an udev bug caused by a module-less kernel?
>
> Does:
>    udevadm trigger --action=add
> make it work the same way as running 'udevadm test'? Then it's more
> likely an issue with your init system/bootup logic and not with udev.
>
> Kay

Thank you for the hint, you were right.

IIRC, a mere `udevadm trigger` used to work and now I see that 
Archlinux's initscripts have
   udevadm trigger --action=add --type=subsystems
   udevadm trigger --action=add --type=devices

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