netdev - Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:06:22 -0700
From:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
To:	Bill Nottingham <notting@...hat.com>
Cc:	Scott James Remnant <scott@...ntu.com>,
	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>,
	Narendra K <narendra_k@...l.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org, jordan_hargrave@...l.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 13:37 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Scott James Remnant (scott@...ntu.com) said: 
> > On the other hand, they *tend* to be unique for a wide range of systems.
> > This makes them pretty comparable to LABELs on disks, and we have
> > a /dev/disk/by-label
> > 
> > Remember that udev already supports symlink stacking, and priorities and
> > such.
> > 
> > I don't think there's any danger of supporting a /dev/netdev/by-mac by
> > default, it'll be a benefit to most and those who don't have unique MACs
> > will just ignore it.
> 
> At the moment, we do not appear to get the proper change uevents from things
> like 'ip link set dev <foo> address <bar>', so we can't currently maintain
> these symlinks.

And if we really want seamless support for MAC spoofing, we want
ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR for all drivers too, so that if your configuration
says "rename device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX to YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY" we can
actually figure stuff out after the spoof.

Dan


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