From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
narendra_k@dell.com, jcm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: extended netdevice naming proposal
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:29:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1290047397.3818.3.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101118021039.GA18707@nostromo.devel.redhat.com>
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:10 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch@dell.com) said:
> > (location)(slot)#(port)/(instance).(vlan)
>
> AIUI, the kernel explicitly rejects '/' in the name (for fairly obvious
> sysfs reasons.) So you'd at least need a different delimiter. There may
> also be potential confusion with pci01#03:02.0001 with someone thinking
> that's bus/dev/fn, if we're being really petty.
':' is also reserved for alias interfaces, the old way of assigning
multiple IP addresses.
I would say '-' is a good separator, but that might result in ambiguity
in IRQ names.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-18 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-17 22:06 extended netdevice naming proposal Matt Domsch
2010-11-18 0:39 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-18 2:10 ` Bill Nottingham
2010-11-18 2:29 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-11-18 18:51 ` Matt Domsch
2010-11-18 19:00 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-18 18:34 ` Rick Jones
2010-11-18 18:52 ` Matt Domsch
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