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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devargs: add blacklisting by linux interface
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:18:01 +0100
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On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 11:00:07AM -0400, Chas Williams wrote:
> If a system is using deterministic interface names, it may be easier in
> some cases to use the interface name to blacklist an interface.
>

Is it possible to do this using the existing arguments, i.e. have the -b flag
detect if it's a pci address or name automatically, rather than having to use
a separate command-line arg for it?

/Bruce