From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Subject: Re: extended netdevice naming proposal Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:10:40 -0500 Message-ID: <20101118021039.GA18707@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> References: <20101117220659.GA12177@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, narendra_k@dell.com, jcm@redhat.com To: Matt Domsch Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101117220659.GA12177@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> Sender: linux-hotplug-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch@dell.com) said: > (location)(slot)#(port)/(instance).(vlan) AIUI, the kernel explicitly rejects '/' in the name (for fairly obvious sysfs reasons.) So you'd at least need a different delimiter. There may also be potential confusion with pci01#03:02.0001 with someone thinking that's bus/dev/fn, if we're being really petty. Bill