netdev - Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

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Message-ID: <4ACF6367.8040401@kadzban.is-a-geek.net>
Date:	Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:23:03 -0700
From:	Bryan Kadzban <bryan@...zban.is-a-geek.net>
To:	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>
CC:	Narendra K <narendra_k@...l.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org, jordan_hargrave@...l.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

Matt Domsch wrote:
> Let me also note that we are prepared to have userspace consumers of 
> this new character device node.
> 
> http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Oss/libnetdevname
> 
> notes how the kernel patch will interact with udev, describes the new
> library helper function in libnetdevname, and has patches for 
> net-tools, iproute2, and ethtool to make use of the helper function.
> 
> As has been noted here, MAC addresses are not necessarily unique to
> an interface.

Only in the case of e.g. qemu (virtual hardware), I think.  (Or some
kinds of broken hardware.  Anything not on the udev whitelist from
75-persistent-net-generator.rules.)

The combination of (MAC, ifindex) is not unique, which is what I meant
earlier -- but the setup on the wiki seems to handle this properly.
Assuming there was a /dev/net/by-mac/00:01:02:03:04:05 link, it should
work fine...


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