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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: rocker: Change netdev names to include slot number
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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.