From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jiri@resnulli.us, sfeldma@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] net: add support for phys_port_name
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:13:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150324151318.4e50dcbb@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426645397-15284-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com>
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:23:15 -0600
David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
> Similar to port id allow netdevices to specify port names and export
> the name via sysfs. Drivers can implement the netdevice operation to
> assist udev in having sane default names for the devices using the
> rule:
>
> $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{phys_port_name}!="",
> NAME="$attr{phys_port_name}"
>
> Use of phys_name versus phys_id was suggested-by Jiri Pirko.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
> Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Should this also be settable as well?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-24 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-18 2:23 [PATCH v4 1/3] net: add support for phys_port_name David Ahern
2015-03-18 2:23 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] rocker: " David Ahern
2015-03-19 2:30 ` David Miller
2015-03-18 2:23 ` [PATCH 3/3] iproute2: Add " David Ahern
2015-03-19 2:30 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] net: add " David Miller
2015-03-24 22:13 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-03-24 22:25 ` David Ahern
2015-03-25 6:37 ` Jiri Pirko
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