From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dann frazier Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:08:06 +0000 Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy Message-Id: <20091013220806.GB22641@ldl.fc.hp.com> List-Id: References: <20091009140000.GA18765@mock.linuxdev.us.dell.com> <20091013150839.GD32107@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20091013195117.GA3778@kroah.com> <5DDAB7BA7BDB58439DD0EED0B8E9A3AE02E8277A@ausx3mpc102.aus.amer.dell.com> <20091013201931.GA4622@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20091013201931.GA4622@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg KH Cc: Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com, Narendra_K@Dell.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, Charles_Rose@Dell.com On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:19:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > A: No. > Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? > > http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:00:59PM -0500, Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com wrote: > > We have developed a mapping library that will convert the > > user-friendly symlink names to the kernel names necessary for socket > > ioctls. All network tools that normally take ethX as argument have > > been modified to use this mapping library. Usually it's just a > > one-line addition when parsing the command line arguments. > > Either I missed this in the first message in this thread, or this was > never stated before, but that is nice. Where is this library, I read about it here: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Oss/libnetdevname#libnetdevname Source appears to be here: http://linux.dell.com/git/?p=libnetdevname.git;a=summary > and will > it be accepted by the upstream tool maintainers? -- dann frazier