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

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Message-ID: <20091030171357.GA15020@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:13:57 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>
Cc:	dann frazier <dannf@...nf.org>, Narendra_K@...l.com,
	kay.sievers@...y.org, linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jordan_Hargrave@...l.com,
	Charles_Rose@...l.com, bhutchings@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev: create empty regular files to represent net
 interfaces

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:10:03PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> ethN is fundamentally a nondeterministic namespace, and trying to
> enforce determinism on it is, from all my attempts, impossible.  Hence
> the desire to change the namespace.  But there can be many
> different naming policies one might want (including the
> nondeterministic ethN policy), and for all other types of devices this
> isn't a problem - we can have all the policies we want, in parallel.
> Only for network devices we can't.

So pick one in your installer and stick with it.  Doesn't seem that
complicated to me...

greg k-h
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