From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sfeldma@gmail.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: rocker: Change netdev names to include slot number
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:15:24 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150202.141524.1261025621046834526.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE4R7bA0Ea9zugm=OR0EN2qSeoiROEoMiYZ-5YMwd9UdS4L0Sg@mail.gmail.com>
From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 13:33:08 -0800
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 10:03 PM, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Currently, rocker devices are given eth%d names. If you have multiple
>> rocker devices it is difficult to easily correlate eth%d names to a
>> rocker device and port. Change the device name to sw + PCI slot
>> number + p + id (sw%dp%d). This makes the device names easier to
>> correlate. ie., Rather than eth0, ..., eth N (N = number of ports in
>> device) the ports get netdev names like sw5p0, ..., sw5pN.
>
> I think udev is the preferred tool for interface naming, rather than
> hard-coding interface names in the driver.
That's correct.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-02 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-02 6:03 [PATCH] net: rocker: Change netdev names to include slot number David Ahern
2015-02-02 21:33 ` Scott Feldman
2015-02-02 21:41 ` David Ahern
2015-02-02 22:03 ` Florian Fainelli
2015-02-02 22:09 ` David Ahern
2015-02-03 5:46 ` Scott Feldman
2015-02-03 16:06 ` David Ahern
2015-02-03 7:33 ` Rosen, Rami
2015-02-02 22:16 ` David Miller
2015-02-02 22:15 ` David Miller [this message]
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