netdev - Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: eth1394: use "firewire%d" instead of "eth%d" as interface name

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Message-ID: <tkrat.6c3758bf0544a790@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Sun, 24 May 2009 11:47:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: eth1394: use "firewire%d" instead of "eth%d" as
 interface name

Christian Kujau wrote at LKML:
> If the patch will be accepted at all and it's not too late to ask: I'd 
> vote for fw%d as well, "firefire" just looks too long, for me at least. 

I think I'll leave the driver as it is.
As I just noticed, we would lose interface renaming by udev.
>From udev/extras/rule_generator/75-persistent-net-generator.rules:

  # device name whitelist
  KERNEL!="eth*|ath*|wlan*[0-9]|msh*|ra*|sta*|ctc*|lcs*|hsi*", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"

Besides, if we can we should avoid fw%d because this will clash with
udev rules which match KERNEL=="fw*", as in
udev/rules/redhat/40-redhat.rules.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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