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

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Message-ID: <20091013201931.GA4622@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:19:31 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Jordan_Hargrave@...l.com
Cc:	Narendra_K@...l.com, dannf@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org, Matt_Domsch@...l.com,
	Charles_Rose@...l.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy


A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:00:59PM -0500, Jordan_Hargrave@...l.com wrote:
> We have developed a mapping library that will convert the
> user-friendly symlink names to the kernel names necessary for socket
> ioctls.  All network tools that normally take ethX as argument have
> been modified to use this mapping library.  Usually it's just a
> one-line addition when parsing the command line arguments.

Either I missed this in the first message in this thread, or this was
never stated before, but that is nice.  Where is this library, and will
it be accepted by the upstream tool maintainers?

thanks,

greg k-h
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