From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: fast consecutive name allocation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:09:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFD0631.9020802@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091112222608.79d90e9e@nehalam>
Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> No one has give a reasonable use case for this network device name
> explosion, what is the benchmark doing this nosense, and how do I
> get paid to do it...
>
> But I have to say no for another reason. You cause the kernel to choose
> a different name for the case where a device is deleted or renamed.
> The old code would find and fill the hole when a new device was added.
>
> Since this is a semantic ABI change, the kind that drives users nuts.
>
Yes, I see your point Stephen, but it would be trivial to skip already
used devices as well with litle change.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-13 7:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-13 5:01 [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: fast consecutive name allocation Octavian Purdila
2009-11-13 5:20 ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-13 6:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-13 6:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13 7:09 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-11-13 9:51 ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-13 22:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13 22:40 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-13 22:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13 23:35 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-13 23:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13 23:52 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-14 2:59 ` David Miller
2009-11-14 6:24 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-14 22:36 ` Mark Smith
2009-11-15 1:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-15 1:49 ` Mark Smith
2009-11-15 1:55 ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-11-15 7:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-15 16:50 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-14 7:08 ` Benny Amorsen
2009-11-14 7:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-14 16:16 ` Ben Greear
2009-11-13 9:55 ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-13 16:40 ` Ben Greear
2009-11-14 0:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-14 0:14 ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-14 0:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
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