libvirt/src/node_device
Michal Privoznik 9a13704818 udevHandleOneDevice: Remove old instance of device on "move"
When a device is "move"-d (this basically means it was renamed),
we add the new device onto our list but keep the old there too.
Fortunately, udev sets this DEVPATH_OLD property which points to
the old device path. We can use it to remove the old instance.

To test this try renaming an interface, for instance:

  # ip link set tunl0 name tunl1
  # ip link set tunl1 name tunl0

One problem with udev is that it sends old ifname in INTERFACE
property, which creates a problem for us, the property is where
we get the ifname from and use it then to query all kind of info
about the interface. Well, if it is non-existent then we can't
query anything. This happens if ifname rename is suppressed
(net.ifnames=0 on kernel cmd line for instance). Fortunately, we
can use "kernel" source for udev events which has always the
fresh info.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2020-04-22 12:51:15 +02:00
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