netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: rocker: Change netdev names to include slot number

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Date:	Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:15:24 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sfeldma@...il.com
Cc:	dsahern@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: rocker: Change netdev names to include slot number

From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 13:33:08 -0800

> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 10:03 PM, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com> wrote:
>> Currently, rocker devices are given eth%d names. If you have multiple
>> rocker devices it is difficult to easily correlate eth%d names to a
>> rocker device and port. Change the device name to sw + PCI slot
>> number + p + id (sw%dp%d). This makes the device names easier to
>> correlate. ie., Rather than eth0, ..., eth N (N = number of ports in
>> device) the ports get netdev names like sw5p0, ..., sw5pN.
> 
> I think udev is the preferred tool for interface naming, rather than
> hard-coding interface names in the driver.

That's correct.
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