netdev - Re: [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent net interfaces

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Message-Id: <1256836333.2827.65.camel@achroite>
Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:12:13 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	dann frazier <dannf@...com>, linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org,
	Narendra_K@...l.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jordan_Hargrave@...l.com, Charles_Rose@...l.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent net
	interfaces

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 09:55 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 04:49:35PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 3. Name assignment mechanism
> > Disks: kernel suggests a name; udev can assign any number
> > ???Net devices: kernel assigns a single name; udev can override it
> > 
> > 4. Default name assignment policy
> > Disks: names disk by device path (id), label and UUID
> > ???Net devices: assigns arbitrary stable names per (MAC address, subtype)
> > 
> > 5. Naming by users
> > Disks: user can identify by any method without having to choose on a
> > system-wide basis
> > Net devices: user must identify by single name; policy can be overridden
> > on a system-wide basis
> > 
> > I fully understand the technical reasons for differences 3-5, but why
> > should users have to put up with it?
> 
> That is because network devices are not referred to by /dev/ nodes where
> multiple symlinks would solve the naming problem.

Did you even read the last sentence?

Ben.

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