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From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:52:25 +0000
Subject: Re: extended netdevice naming proposal
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To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:34:29AM -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> With the presence of the pci_slot driver to allow association of the PCI 
> address with a "slot name" is encoding such information into the interface 
> name really necessary?

I think so.  1) Dell systems seem not to be able to put information
into pci_slot.  That needs investigation.  2) if it's not in the name,
the user must do the correlation themselves manually.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
Dell | Office of the CTO