From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, jiri@resnulli.us, sfeldma@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] net: add support for phys_port_name
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:54:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55087848.3030109@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426606258-13466-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com>
On 17/03/15 08:30, David Ahern 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.
Can you also include a documentation update to
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net? Thanks!
--
Florian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-17 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-17 15:30 [PATCH v3 1/3] net: add support for phys_port_name David Ahern
2015-03-17 15:30 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] rocker: " David Ahern
2015-03-17 15:55 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-17 15:30 ` [PATCH 3/3] iproute2: Add " David Ahern
2015-03-17 18:54 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
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