From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dann frazier Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:00:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent net Message-Id: <20091030150050.GC25540@ldl.fc.hp.com> List-Id: References: <20091016214024.GA10091@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20091022063619.GB6321@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20091027205551.GA31963@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <20091029131125.GA13809@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <20091029142554.GA16869@kroah.com> <20091029174600.GC3612@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20091030033029.GA4412@bongo.bofh.it> <20091030053824.GA25540@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20091030062249.GB5430@bongo.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: <20091030062249.GB5430@bongo.bofh.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg KH , Matt Domsch , Kay Sievers , linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, Narendra_K@dell.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jordan_Ha On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 07:22:49AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 30, dann frazier wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:30:29AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Oct 29, dann frazier wrote: > > > > > > > That would make a lot of users much happier (myself included), but it > > > > does restrict us into one view. At different times, admins think of > > > > their NICs by different properties. I may want to do IP assignment by > > > [Citation needed] > > Is "I" not clear, or do you just not believe I admin servers? > I was referring to "At different times, admins think of their NICs by > different properties", which I am not sure is a valid generalization. Fair enough, I can't speak for others. -- dann frazier