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From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 02:56:08 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] UDEV - Add 'udevlom' command line param to
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To: "Loke, Chetan" <Chetan.Loke@netscout.com>
Cc: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>, Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, "K, Narendra" <Narendra_K@Dell.com>, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Hargrave, Jordan" <Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com>, "Rose, Charles" <Charles_Rose@Dell.com>

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Loke, Chetan wrote:

> > Are folks sufficently confident that using anything other than "eth"
> > won't cause some unpleasant "our app always ass-u-me-d interfaces
> started with
> > 'eth'" situations?
> 
> Good point. I'm sure folks use 'eth' in their regex filters. Please
> ignore my obe/obn email.

If the 2 or 3 character name isn't a hard requirement, then
ethm for eth(ernet on )m(otherboard) would seem a natural
possibility.

					-Bill