From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: network interface *name* alias support? Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 05:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080525.051713.124717485.davem@davemloft.net> References: <48387B18.2090300@trash.net> <4838D7E4.7050401@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jengelh@medozas.de, dwmw2@infradead.org, jchapman@katalix.com, Matt_Domsch@dell.com, jonathan@jonmasters.org, tgraf@suug.ch, rick.jones2@hp.com, auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, johnathan@jonmasters.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: kaber@trash.net Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:44222 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760194AbYEYMRS (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 08:17:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4838D7E4.7050401@trash.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Patrick McHardy Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 05:07:16 +0200 > Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Saturday 2008-05-24 22:31, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> David Woodhouse wrote: > >>> On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 10:15 +0100, James Chapman wrote: > >>>> Wouldn't it be better to fix any applications that can't handle > >>>> renamed devices? > >>> _Are_ there any such applications? Other than NetworkManager crapping > >>> itself when the device name is too long, I'm not aware of any. > >> iptraf uses device names to determine the device type: > > > > Run `iptraf -u`, and it works with any name. > > Thanks for the hint. Its stupid nevertheless. I think it's stupid too. Physical geography information for a device is available to userspace already. If tools want to present that to the user in a suitable interface, fine. But what is being proposed here is not necessary to implement that.