From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent net interfaces Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:13:57 -0700 Message-ID: <20091030171357.GA15020@kroah.com> References: <20091016214024.GA10091@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20091022063619.GB6321@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20091027205551.GA31963@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <20091029131125.GA13809@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <20091029142554.GA16869@kroah.com> <20091029174600.GC3612@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20091030160845.GA4547@lackof.org> <20091030171003.GA7523@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dann frazier , Narendra_K@Dell.com, kay.sievers@vrfy.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com, Charles_Rose@Dell.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com To: Matt Domsch Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091030171003.GA7523@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> Sender: linux-hotplug-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:10:03PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > ethN is fundamentally a nondeterministic namespace, and trying to > enforce determinism on it is, from all my attempts, impossible. Hence > the desire to change the namespace. But there can be many > different naming policies one might want (including the > nondeterministic ethN policy), and for all other types of devices this > isn't a problem - we can have all the policies we want, in parallel. > Only for network devices we can't. So pick one in your installer and stick with it. Doesn't seem that complicated to me... greg k-h