From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:56:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Use firmware provided index to register a network Message-Id: <20101007174435.GA2939@libnet-test.oslab.blr.amer.dell.com> List-Id: References: <20101007142319.GB2641@libnet-test.oslab.blr.amer.dell.com> <20101007151134.GA25713@kroah.com> <20101007163113.GA14260@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <20101007164835.GA27339@kroah.com> <20101007171532.GA29857@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20101007171532.GA29857@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: greg@kroah.com Cc: kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com, Vijay_Nijhawan@Dell.com, Charles_Rose@Dell.com On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:45:32PM +0530, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 07:05:14PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 18:48, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:31:13AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > > >> 1) SMBIOS type 41 method. Windows does not use this today, and I > > >> can't speak to their future plans. Narendra's kernel patch does, > > >> as has biosdevname, the udev helper we first wrote for this > > >> purpose, for several years. > > > > > > Then stick with that udev helper please :) > > > > What about just exporting this information in sysfs, and not touch the > naming? > > I think this is now exported in userspace, right Narendra? > Right. It is in the mainline kernel. ( commit 911e1c9b05a8e3559a7aa89083930700a0b9e7ee) -- With regards, Narendra K