From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Requirement to customize Linux Network Interface naming Convention
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 21:04:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150805040430.GA25360@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJqwu=8rA-1CiBm4snx81c=hJs_V0R0gVuFjUDrHV0Fs2Ddyew@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 09:24:41AM +0530, Akash Bhatnagar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a requirement to tweak the Linux Network Interface Naming
> conventions so that, it can support names of interfaces with "/" character.
Who is "we"?
And why do you want such a thing?
> For example, ip tuntap add dev fe/1/1 mode tap
>
> With iproute2 it simply shows error as INVALID Argument. What are the
> changes we supposed to do inside Kernel and iproute2 package?
Lots, good luck :)
But first, push back, you should never care what the network interface
name is, that never matters.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-05 4:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-05 3:54 Requirement to customize Linux Network Interface naming Convention Akash Bhatnagar
2015-08-05 4:04 ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-08-05 14:39 ` Akash Bhatnagar
2015-08-05 14:50 ` Greg KH
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