From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: Bhaskar Jupudi <njupudi@ucsc.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bhelgaas@google.com,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/pci:Broken link fixed
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:05:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160229180536.GB3653@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455055816-3768-1-git-send-email-njupudi@ucsc.edu>
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 02:10:16PM -0800, Bhaskar Jupudi wrote:
> From: cmps107-njupudi <njupudi@ucsc.edu>
>
> Dell developed a way to consistently name devices,
> and their last proposal was accepted under the name biosdevname.
>
> Signed-off-by: Naga Venkata Sai Indubhaskar Jupudi <njupudi@ucsc.edu>
Applied to pci/enumeration for v4.6, thanks!
> ---
> Proposal 1 provides a character device interface to ethernet devices.
>
> Proposal 2 is implemented in the same way as proposal 1 except that
> device nodes are created without any changes in the kernel.
>
> Proposal 3 is an installer based proposal where it provides the user
> with options to rename network interfaces.
>
> Proposal 4 exports system firmware provided SMBIOS strings on
> onboard devices to sysfs.
>
> Proposal 5 uses the firmware provided index to derive ethN names
>
> Proposal 6 is named as biosdevname and renames network interfaces
> to a different names space and accepted upstream.
>
> drivers/pci/pci-label.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-label.c b/drivers/pci/pci-label.c
> index 024b5c1..27143a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci-label.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-label.c
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
> * the instance number and string from the type 41 record and exports
> * it to sysfs.
> *
> - * Please see http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Oss/libnetdevname for more
> + * Please see http://linux.dell.com/files/biosdevname/ for more
> * information.
> */
>
> --
> 2.5.0
>
>
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2016-02-09 22:10 [PATCH] drivers/pci:Broken link fixed Bhaskar Jupudi
2016-02-29 18:05 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
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