Re: ANNOUNCE: bios_dev_name 0.2, now with more SMBIOS goodness

[Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:37:08AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> 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.

I'd appreciate any feedback people have on this.  I've gotten one
report of it working for someone with both Dell and non-Dell hardware
on Debian.  I think it solves a real problem, cleanly.

Thanks,
Matt

-- 
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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