From: Tim Small <tim@seoss.co.uk>
To: Narendra_K@Dell.com
Cc: greg@kroah.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, Charles_Rose@Dell.com,
Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com, Vijay_Nijhawan@Dell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use firmware provided index to register a network interface
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:27:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CADD8B4.10102@seoss.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101007141433.GA2641@libnet-test.oslab.blr.amer.dell.com>
On 07/10/10 15:14, Narendra_K@Dell.com wrote:
> Yes, firmware and BIOS tables can be buggy. How about a command line
> parameter 'no_netfwindex', passing which firmware index will not be
> used to derive ethN names ? That would handle the scenario of buggy
> firmware and names will be derived in the now existing way.
>
> I will submit a patch shortly implementing this.
>
What was the reason for not doing this in user space again? You stated
that you got races when doing renames like eth0 -> eth2, but the
solution looked like renaming into a different name space such as eth0
-> ethlom2 etc. so that it wouldn't race with the names handed out by
the kernel?
Tim.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-07 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-22 18:31 [PATCH] Use firmware provided index to register a network interface Narendra K
2010-09-22 19:22 ` [PATCH] Use firmware provided index to register a network Greg KH
2010-09-23 15:22 ` [PATCH] Use firmware provided index to register a network interface Narendra_K
2010-09-23 15:27 ` [PATCH] Use firmware provided index to register a network Greg KH
2010-09-23 15:51 ` [PATCH] Use firmware provided index to register a network interface Narendra_K
2010-09-23 16:33 ` [PATCH] Use firmware provided index to register a network Greg KH
2010-10-07 14:26 ` Narendra_K
2010-10-07 14:27 ` Tim Small [this message]
2010-10-07 14:31 ` Greg KH
2010-09-22 22:07 ` [PATCH] Use firmware provided index to register a network interface Tim Small
2010-09-22 22:16 ` [PATCH] Use firmware provided index to register a network Stephen Hemminger
2010-09-23 6:34 ` [PATCH] Use firmware provided index to register a network interface Tim Small
2010-09-23 15:25 ` Narendra_K
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