netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] net: add support for phys_port

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Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2015 22:30:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dsahern@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...nulli.us, sfeldma@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] net: add support for phys_port_name

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:23:15 -0600

> Similar to port id allow netdevices to specify port names and export
> the name via sysfs. Drivers can implement the netdevice operation to
> assist udev in having sane default names for the devices using the
> rule:
> 
> $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{phys_port_name}!="",
> NAME="$attr{phys_port_name}"
> 
> Use of phys_name versus phys_id was suggested-by Jiri Pirko.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
> Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>

Applied to net-next.
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