From: <Narendra_K@Dell.com>
To: <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>, <Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com>,
<Vijay_Nijhawan@Dell.com>, <Charles_Rose@Dell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Use firmware provided index to register a network interface
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 23:14:46 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101007174435.GA2939@libnet-test.oslab.blr.amer.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101007171532.GA29857@kroah.com>
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:45:32PM +0530, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 07:05:14PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 18:48, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:31:13AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > >> 1) SMBIOS type 41 method. Windows does not use this today, and I
> > >> can't speak to their future plans. Narendra's kernel patch does,
> > >> as has biosdevname, the udev helper we first wrote for this
> > >> purpose, for several years.
> > >
> > > Then stick with that udev helper please :)
> >
> > What about just exporting this information in sysfs, and not touch the
> naming?
>
> I think this is now exported in userspace, right Narendra?
>
Right. It is in the mainline kernel.
( commit 911e1c9b05a8e3559a7aa89083930700a0b9e7ee)
--
With regards,
Narendra K
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-07 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-07 14:23 [PATCH V2] Use firmware provided index to register a network interface Narendra_K
2010-10-07 15:11 ` Greg KH
2010-10-07 16:31 ` Matt Domsch
2010-10-07 16:48 ` Greg KH
2010-10-07 17:05 ` Kay Sievers
2010-10-07 17:15 ` Greg KH
2010-10-07 17:44 ` Narendra_K [this message]
2010-10-07 18:44 ` Narendra_K
2010-10-07 20:42 ` Matt Domsch
2010-10-07 16:49 ` David Lamparter
2010-10-07 17:13 ` Kay Sievers
2010-10-07 16:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
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