netdev - Re: network interface *name* alias support?

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Date:	Fri, 23 May 2008 10:44:10 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>, johnathan@...masters.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dwmw2@...radead.org
Subject: Re: network interface *name* alias support?

> FWIW you can just use ethtool to determine the slot address quickly
> in userspace. There's no real need to do this in the kernel.
> 
> # ethtool -i eth0
> driver: e1000e
> version: 0.2.0
> firmware-version: 1.3-0
> bus-info: 0000:00:19.0

And if it happens to be in a hotplug slot today with a suitable hotplug 
module (term?) loaded like acpiphp you can then map that to a more human 
friendly slot number/name.  In the future, once Alex Chiang's pci slots 
patches make it to mainline it will be possible even with non-hotplug slots.

netperf omni tests and a couple other tools try to find such mappings today.

rick jones
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