From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:12:03 +0000 Subject: Re: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy Message-Id: <20090324181202.GE5925@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> List-Id: References: <20090324154617.GA16332@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <1237914139.22009.18.camel@quest> <20090324175203.GB22700@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <20090324175203.GB22700@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matt Domsch Cc: Scott James Remnant , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch@dell.com) said: > > Now consider USB. Would the device name change depending on which USB > > port you plugged it into? Or is USB just a single slot, in which case > > what happens when you have two USB ethernet devices? > > > > The Apple USB Ethernet device in my iPhone is not the USB Wireless > > adapter I own, both have very different networking configurations. > > we would obviously need a solution. eth_usb_{something} perhaps. Right, but having biosdevname chase each new bus that comes along sounds iffy. I'd prefer /dev/net/by-name symlinks, if at all possible. But that's a lot of code that I'm not prepared to write. Bill