From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:49:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20091106084921.GA16700@bongo.bofh.it> References: <20091013173638.GE1119@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20091016003245.GD29672@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20091016152053.GA9862@ldl.fc.hp.com> <1255707193.2869.12.camel@achroite> <20091016214024.GA10091@ldl.fc.hp.com> <4ADC906E.2050909@kadzban.is-a-geek.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: bryan@kadzban.is-a-geek.net, dannf@hp.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com, Charles_Rose@Dell.com, Sandeep_K_Shandilya@Dell.com To: Narendra_K@Dell.com Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-hotplug-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Nov 04, Narendra_K@Dell.com wrote: > SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", > ATTR{smbios_name}=="Embedded_NIC_1", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", > NAME="eth0". As a distribution developer I highly value solutions like this which do not require patching every application which deals with interface names and then teaching users about aliases which only work in some places and are unknown to the kernel. -- ciao, Marco