From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:10:40 +0000 Subject: Re: extended netdevice naming proposal Message-Id: <20101118021039.GA18707@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> List-Id: References: <20101117220659.GA12177@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <20101117220659.GA12177@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matt Domsch Cc: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, narendra_k@dell.com, jcm@redhat.com Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch@dell.com) said: > (location)(slot)#(port)/(instance).(vlan) AIUI, the kernel explicitly rejects '/' in the name (for fairly obvious sysfs reasons.) So you'd at least need a different delimiter. There may also be potential confusion with pci01#03:02.0001 with someone thinking that's bus/dev/fn, if we're being really petty. Bill