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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] net: add support for phys_port_name
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:13:18 -0700
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On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:23:15 -0600
David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:

> Similar to port id allow netdevices to specify port names and export
> the name via sysfs. Drivers can implement the netdevice operation to
> assist udev in having sane default names for the devices using the
> rule:
> 
> $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{phys_port_name}!="",
> NAME="$attr{phys_port_name}"
> 
> Use of phys_name versus phys_id was suggested-by Jiri Pirko.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
> Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>

Should this also be settable as well?