From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:29:57 +0000 Subject: Re: extended netdevice naming proposal Message-Id: <1290047397.3818.3.camel@localhost> List-Id: References: <20101117220659.GA12177@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <20101118021039.GA18707@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20101118021039.GA18707@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bill Nottingham Cc: Matt Domsch , linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, narendra_k@dell.com, jcm@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. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.