linux-kernel - RE: nic enumeration

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Date:	Fri, 9 Jul 2010 14:55:16 -0400
From:	"Loke, Chetan" <Chetan.Loke@...scout.com>
To:	"Matt Domsch" <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>
Cc:	"Florian Weimer" <fweimer@....de>, <linux-net@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Michael Di Domenico" <mdidomenico4@...il.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Subject: RE: nic enumeration

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Domsch [mailto:Matt_Domsch@...l.com]
> Sent: July 09, 2010 1:15 PM
> To: Loke, Chetan
> Cc: Florian Weimer; linux-net@...r.kernel.org; Michael Di Domenico;
> linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; kay.sievers@...y.org
> Subject: Re: nic enumeration
> 
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 12:27:53PM -0400, Loke, Chetan wrote:
> > Ok, no renaming, I would like a reference. And symlink just doesn't
> work
> > w/ the udevadm trigger business. We've tried that already.
> >
> > What needs to be changed in udev etc to create a soft link? Any
place
> > where I should start digging and gotchas to lookout for?
> 
> Unlike disks which have /dev/disk/by-{id,path,uuid}/* symlinks back to
> /dev/sd*, which udev manages, network devices have no such on-disk
> representation for udev to manage.  My proposal to create such on-disk
> mappings was shot down, as was my suggestion to create (multiple)
> network device symlinks/references/aliases inside the kernel.
> 

Ok, I'm reading your link below/libnetdevname and original patch too.

I'm willing to bend over to get something done. It's so much better than
getting repeatedly tortured by customers.


> FWIW, I have a talk at LinuxCon Boston coming up on this, and have a
> proposal in for Linux Plumbers Conference as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 

Regards
Chetan Loke

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