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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: dsa: make "label" property optional for
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 17:07:44 +0100
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Cc: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>,
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Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 05:00:19PM CET, andrew@lunn.ch wrote:
>> > No. That should be unique within one switch. In mlxsw we name it "p1",
>> > "p2", ...
>> >
>> > The final netdev names are:
>> > enp3s0np1, enp3s0np2, ...
>> 
>
>mlxsw are pci devices, so it follows this convention, i think:
>
> *   [P<domain>]p<bus>s<slot>[f<function>][n<phys_port_name>|d<dev_port>]
> *                                          PCI geographical location
>
>Our devices are not on PCI. So they won't follow this. I've no idea
>what they actually follow, since some are MDIO devices, some are SPI
>devices, some are memory mapped.

Got it. We just have to make sure udev names them appropriately. 


>
>I'm not against making the label option, but i do want to better
>understand what we get as a result, just to make sure it is sensible.
>
>Vivien, could you try a recent udev and see what happens?
>
>	Thanks
>		Andrew