From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] UDEV - Add 'udevlom' command line param to start_udev Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:09:38 -0600 Message-ID: <20101126020938.GA31184@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> References: <20101103165505.GA3281@fedora-14-r710.oslab.blr.amer.dell.com> <20101103180500.GA7441@kroah.com> <20101105025848.GA14021@pws490.domsch.com> <20101115164714.GB7030@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <1289841399.2586.18.camel@bwh-desktop> <4CE18ACC.3020508@hp.com> <20101124215608.6b0371b8.billfink@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Loke, Chetan" , Rick Jones , Ben Hutchings , Greg KH , "K, Narendra" , linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Hargrave, Jordan" , "Rose, Charles" To: Bill Fink Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101124215608.6b0371b8.billfink@mindspring.com> Sender: linux-hotplug-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:56:08PM -0500, Bill Fink wrote: > On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Loke, Chetan wrote: > > > > Are folks sufficently confident that using anything other than "eth" > > > won't cause some unpleasant "our app always ass-u-me-d interfaces > > started with > > > 'eth'" situations? > > > > Good point. I'm sure folks use 'eth' in their regex filters. Please > > ignore my obe/obn email. > > If the 2 or 3 character name isn't a hard requirement, then > ethm for eth(ernet on )m(otherboard) would seem a natural > possibility. I went with 'em' (embedded or ethernet-on-motherboard) in biosdevname. Git tree at: http://linux.dell.com/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=biosdevname.git;a=summary Now I'm just trying to figure out why it seems pciutils libpci is unhappy when the device tree is constantly changing underneath it, such as when loading ixgbe max_vfs=63 - each new SR-IOV device created launches a new udev instance as expected, but the device tree as seen from any one of them may not be quite right as it's changing... Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO