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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:37:37 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: teg@...m.no Cc: dh.herrmann@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, johannes@...solutions.net, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Provide netdev naming-policy via sysfs From: Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:46:02 +0100 > The issue I see with that is that there are several ways to generate > predictable names, and the user may want to chose between them, so > this is arguably policy that should not be in the kernel. If you don't > think that's a problem, I'd be happy to submit a patch to move all > this logic from udev to the kernel, just let me know how you see it. Unfortunately, we have already allowed this kind of thing for setting MAC addresses so I guess I'll have to allow your changes to be applied. But before I ask you to resubmit, do you have full buy-in from the udev folks for this facility? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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