New: ne2000 doesn't set udev DRIVER attribute

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12339

           Summary: ne2000 doesn't set udev DRIVER attribute
           Product: Networking
           Version: 2.5
     KernelVersion: 2.6.28
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: Other
        AssignedTo: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [email protected]

The ne2000 driver does not set the DRIVER attribute in udev. This causes persistent network device naming to ignore the device, thinking it to be a virtual device of some sort that ought not to be persistently named.

Relevant output:

# udevadm info -a -p /sys/class/net/eth0

Udevinfo starts with the device specified by the devpath and then walks up the chain of parent devices. It prints for every device found, all possible attributes in the udev rules key format. A rule to match, can be composed by the attributes of the device and the attributes from one single parent device.

looking at device '/devices/virtual/net/eth0':

    KERNEL=="eth0"
    SUBSYSTEM=="net"
    DRIVER==""
    ATTR{addr_len}=="6"
    ATTR{iflink}=="2"
    ATTR{ifindex}=="2"
    ATTR{features}=="0x0"
    ATTR{type}=="1"
    ATTR{link_mode}=="0"
    ATTR{address}=="00:80:c8:2c:71:a2"
    ATTR{broadcast}=="ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff"
    ATTR{carrier}=="1"
    ATTR{dormant}=="0"
    ATTR{operstate}=="unknown"
    ATTR{mtu}=="1500"
    ATTR{flags}=="0x1003"
    ATTR{tx_queue_len}=="1000"

looking at parent device '/devices/virtual/net':

    KERNELS=="net"
    SUBSYSTEMS==""
    DRIVERS==""

looking at parent device '/devices/virtual':

    KERNELS=="virtual"
    SUBSYSTEMS==""
    DRIVERS==""

Downstream <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252449>, Daniel Drake suggests that maybe "this is because the driver does not call SET_NETDEV_DEV()".