From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "K,
Narendra" <Narendra_K@Dell.com>,
"Hargrave, Jordan" <Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com>,
"Rose, Charles" <Charles_Rose@Dell.com>,
Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: biosdevname v0.3.2
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 12:19:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101207181910.GA2643@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291745782.21627.6.camel@bwh-desktop>
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 06:16:22PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> It appears that 'unknown slot' is treated as a specific slot and all
> devices with an unknown slot are given unique indices. Perhaps this
> doesn't matter in the end, since no name is generated when the slot is
> unknown.
Yes on all counts.
> However, the 2 NIC ports do have their own indices (specified with the
> dev_id attribute) and it should be possible to distinguish slots by
> PCI/PCIe topology even though the name given won't correspond to any
> markings on the motherboard.
Tell me more about the dev_id attribute. I'm happy to use it, but I
don't understand the rules around populating it.
Thanks,
Matt
--
Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
Dell | Office of the CTO
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-07 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-06 14:06 biosdevname v0.3.2 Matt Domsch
2010-12-07 18:16 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-12-07 18:19 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
2010-12-07 18:41 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-12-08 5:19 ` Matt Domsch
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