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From:   Harini Katakam <harinik@xilinx.com>
Date:   Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:13:44 +0530
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Subject: Re: Request for suggestion on net device re-naming/re-ordering based
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To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>,
        David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>,
        Harini Katakam <harini.katakam@xilinx.com>
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 12:10 AM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:24:03 +0530
> Harini Katakam <harinik@xilinx.com> wrote:
>
<snip>
>
> Device naming is a hard problem, and there is no perfect solution.
>
> Device tree should be providing hints to userspace policy for naming, not
> trying to do it in the kernel.
> See: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

Thanks Stephen - I'll try this.

Regards,
Harini