From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott James Remnant Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:41:15 +0100 Message-ID: <1255344075.2143.1.camel@warcraft> References: <20091009140000.GA18765@mock.linuxdev.us.dell.com> <20091009145137.GD19218@mock.linuxdev.us.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-8WHhO4NRJuwOwVJ3UFlz" Cc: Narendra K , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, jordan_hargrave@dell.com To: Matt Domsch Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20091009145137.GD19218@mock.linuxdev.us.dell.com> Sender: linux-hotplug-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-8WHhO4NRJuwOwVJ3UFlz Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 09:51 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > As has been noted here, MAC addresses are not necessarily unique to an > interface. As such, we are not proposing a net/by-mac/* symlink to > /dev/netdev/*. >=20 On the other hand, they *tend* to be unique for a wide range of systems. This makes them pretty comparable to LABELs on disks, and we have a /dev/disk/by-label Remember that udev already supports symlink stacking, and priorities and such. I don't think there's any danger of supporting a /dev/netdev/by-mac by default, it'll be a benefit to most and those who don't have unique MACs will just ignore it. Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@ubuntu.com --=-8WHhO4NRJuwOwVJ3UFlz 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) iEYEABECAAYFAkrTB8gACgkQSnQiFMl4yK6nrgCeMoZOfJZOQNxZZnwxKhyCXAzq UpgAoJ21fQJxIqzGggKdHMW9i6b3w5bD =xRW8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-8WHhO4NRJuwOwVJ3UFlz--