Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:12:03 -0400
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy
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Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch@dell.com) said: 
> > Now consider USB.  Would the device name change depending on which USB
> > port you plugged it into?  Or is USB just a single slot, in which case
> > what happens when you have two USB ethernet devices?
> > 
> > The Apple USB Ethernet device in my iPhone is not the USB Wireless
> > adapter I own, both have very different networking configurations.
> 
> we would obviously need a solution.  eth_usb_{something} perhaps.

Right, but having biosdevname chase each new bus that comes along
sounds iffy. I'd prefer /dev/net/by-name symlinks, if at all
possible. But that's a lot of code that I'm not prepared to write.

Bill
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