From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: bios_dev_name 0.2, now with more SMBIOS goodness
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:37:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070806143708.GA17840@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070728040323.GA25467@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com>
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:03:23PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> You may recall a problem several hardware manufacturers faced, where
> the BIOS-given name for an ethernet device (e.g. "Gb1") didn't map to
> the expected and obvious Linux device name (e.g. eth0), but instead
> mapped to another name (e.g. eth1). This was highly confusing to
> system admins with such hardware.
[snip]
> so now, option 3:
>
> 3) bios_dev_name (http://linux.dell.com/files/bios_dev_name) -
> intended to be a udev helper. For example, something like:
>
> KERNEL="eth*", ACTION="add", PROGRAM="/usr/sbin/bios_dev_name -i %k", NAME="%c"
>
> which, given the kernel's name for a device, retreives the
> BIOS-expected name, and sets it to that. Alternately, it can be
> integrated into SuSE's rename_netiface script as demonstrated in the
> patch included in the release. As a udev helper, it doesn't need
> config files to accomplish its work.
Any thoughts on this?
-Matt
--
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-06 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-28 4:03 ANNOUNCE: bios_dev_name 0.2, now with more SMBIOS goodness Matt Domsch
2007-08-06 14:37 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
2007-08-14 2:57 ` Matt Domsch
2007-08-14 7:17 ` Greg KH
2007-08-14 8:53 ` Kay Sievers
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