netdev - Re: [PATCH] Use firmware provided index to register a network interface

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Date:	Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:27:00 +0100
From:	Tim Small <tim@...ss.co.uk>
To:	Narendra_K@...l.com
CC:	greg@...ah.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	Matt_Domsch@...l.com, Charles_Rose@...l.com,
	Jordan_Hargrave@...l.com, Vijay_Nijhawan@...l.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use firmware provided index to register a network interface

On 07/10/10 15:14, Narendra_K@...l.com wrote:
> Yes, firmware and BIOS tables can be buggy. How about a command line
> parameter 'no_netfwindex', passing which firmware index will not be
> used to derive ethN names ? That would handle the scenario of buggy
> firmware and names will be derived in the now existing way.
>
> I will submit a patch shortly implementing this.
>    

What was the reason for not doing this in user space again?  You stated 
that you got races when doing renames like eth0 -> eth2, but the 
solution looked like renaming into a different name space such as eth0 
-> ethlom2  etc. so that it wouldn't race with the names handed out by 
the kernel?

Tim.
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