Re: [PATCH 1/3] Handle upper case MAC addresses in ifname option

[David Dillow <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 09:08 +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> --- dracut.orig/modules.d/40network/parse-ifname.sh	2011-12-27 09:01:08.000000000 +1100
> +++ dracut/modules.d/40network/parse-ifname.sh	2011-12-27 09:02:05.420745541 +1100
> @@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ parse_ifname_opts() {
>      case $# in
>          7)
>              ifname_if=$1
> -            ifname_mac=$2:$3:$4:$5:$6:$7
> +            # udev requires MAC addresses to be lower case
> +            ifname_mac=`echo $2:$3:$4:$5:$6:$7 | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`

Admittedly, I've not checked the latest git version, but dracut doesn't
install 'tr' to the initramfs, at least not in RHEL 6.

Dave

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