From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
narendra_k@dell.com, jcm@redhat.com, notting@redhat.com
Subject: Re: extended netdevice naming proposal
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:52:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101118185225.GB4952@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CE571B5.9070600@hp.com>
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:34:29AM -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> With the presence of the pci_slot driver to allow association of the PCI
> address with a "slot name" is encoding such information into the interface
> name really necessary?
I think so. 1) Dell systems seem not to be able to put information
into pci_slot. That needs investigation. 2) if it's not in the name,
the user must do the correlation themselves manually.
Thanks,
Matt
--
Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
Dell | Office of the CTO
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-18 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-17 22:06 extended netdevice naming proposal Matt Domsch
2010-11-18 0:39 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-18 2:10 ` Bill Nottingham
2010-11-18 2:29 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-18 18:51 ` Matt Domsch
2010-11-18 19:00 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-18 18:34 ` Rick Jones
2010-11-18 18:52 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
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