From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:06:37 +0000 Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy Message-Id: <20091106220637.GB15533@mock.linuxdev.us.dell.com> List-Id: References: <20091013173638.GE1119@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20091016003245.GD29672@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20091016152053.GA9862@ldl.fc.hp.com> <1255707193.2869.12.camel@achroite> <20091016214024.GA10091@ldl.fc.hp.com> <4ADC906E.2050909@kadzban.is-a-geek.net> <20091106084921.GA16700@bongo.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: <20091106084921.GA16700@bongo.bofh.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Narendra_K@Dell.com, bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net, dannf@hp.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com, Charles_Ros On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 09:49:21AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 04, Narendra_K@Dell.com wrote: > > > SUBSYSTEM="net", ACTION="add", DRIVERS="?*", > > ATTR{smbios_name}="Embedded_NIC_1", ATTR{type}="1", KERNEL="eth*", > > NAME="eth0". > As a distribution developer I highly value solutions like this which do > not require patching every application which deals with interface names > and then teaching users about aliases which only work in some places and > are unknown to the kernel. Fair enough - but would you object if we changed the naming scheme from eth%d to something else? -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux