From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott James Remnant Subject: Re: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:20:07 +0000 Message-ID: <1237918807.22009.47.camel@quest> References: <20090324154617.GA16332@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <1237914139.22009.18.camel@quest> <20090324175203.GB22700@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <20090324181202.GE5925@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-7PNCfW4uU1knhl0bvuTK" Cc: Matt Domsch , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Nottingham Return-path: Received: from zelda.netsplit.com ([87.194.19.211]:42281 "EHLO zelda.netsplit.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755125AbZCXSUG (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:20:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090324181202.GE5925@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-7PNCfW4uU1knhl0bvuTK Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 14:12 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch@dell.com) said:=20 > > > Now consider USB. Would the device name change depending on which US= B > > > port you plugged it into? Or is USB just a single slot, in which cas= e > > > what happens when you have two USB ethernet devices? > > >=20 > > > The Apple USB Ethernet device in my iPhone is not the USB Wireless > > > adapter I own, both have very different networking configurations. > >=20 > > we would obviously need a solution. eth_usb_{something} perhaps. >=20 > Right, but having biosdevname chase each new bus that comes along > sounds iffy. I'd prefer /dev/net/by-name symlinks, if at all > possible. But that's a lot of code that I'm not prepared to write. >=20 Not to mention that All The World Is Not x86 Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@ubuntu.com --=-7PNCfW4uU1knhl0bvuTK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAknJJFcACgkQSnQiFMl4yK4t0QCfXmptkOlElpU/lt7RVDXiBBRP 64gAnivtt8kf+GBOkfh3ddJ0Ql9kpuBH =k0vJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-7PNCfW4uU1knhl0bvuTK--