From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:37:08 +0000 Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: bios_dev_name 0.2, now with more SMBIOS goodness Message-Id: <20070806143708.GA17840@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> List-Id: References: <20070728040323.GA25467@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <20070728040323.GA25467@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel