RE: nic enumeration

Loke, Chetan
2010-07-09T19:02:29Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Domsch [mailto:Matt_Domsch@dell.com]
> Sent: July 09, 2010 1:15 PM
> To: Loke, Chetan
> Cc: Florian Weimer; linux-net@vger.kernel.org; Michael Di Domenico;
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; kay.sievers@vrfy.org
> Subject: Re: nic enumeration
>
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 12:27:53PM -0400, Loke, Chetan wrote:
> > Ok, no renaming, I would like a reference. And symlink just doesn't
> work
> > w/ the udevadm trigger business. We've tried that already.
> >
> > What needs to be changed in udev etc to create a soft link? Any
place
> > where I should start digging and gotchas to lookout for?
>
> Unlike disks which have /dev/disk/by-{id,path,uuid}/* symlinks back to
> /dev/sd*, which udev manages, network devices have no such on-disk
> representation for udev to manage. My proposal to create such on-disk
> mappings was shot down, as was my suggestion to create (multiple)
> network device symlinks/references/aliases inside the kernel.
>

Ok, I'm reading your link below/libnetdevname and original patch too.

I'm willing to bend over to get something done. It's so much better than
getting repeatedly tortured by customers.

> FWIW, I have a talk at LinuxCon Boston coming up on this, and have a
> proposal in for Linux Plumbers Conference as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>

Regards
Chetan Loke