Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753874Ab0GITC3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:02:29 -0400 Received: from chip2og120.obsmtp.com ([64.18.13.89]:40671 "HELO chip2og120.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753467Ab0GITC1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:02:27 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 428 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:02:27 EDT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: nic enumeration Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 14:55:16 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100709171529.GA27241@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: nic enumeration Thread-Index: Acsfila9gYFls+alSLahI6iJ2LlMnQABC/lw References: <82tyo9i0n2.fsf@mid.bfk.de> <20100709171529.GA27241@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> From: "Loke, Chetan" To: "Matt Domsch" Cc: "Florian Weimer" , , "Michael Di Domenico" , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Jul 2010 18:55:17.0994 (UTC) FILETIME=[45FDC4A0:01CB1F98] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1586 Lines: 45 > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Domsch [mailto:Matt_Domsch@dell.com] > Sent: July 09, 2010 1:15 PM > To: Loke, Chetan > Cc: Florian Weimer; linux-net@vger.kernel.org; Michael Di Domenico; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; kay.sievers@vrfy.org > Subject: Re: nic enumeration > > On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 12:27:53PM -0400, Loke, Chetan wrote: > > Ok, no renaming, I would like a reference. And symlink just doesn't > work > > w/ the udevadm trigger business. We've tried that already. > > > > What needs to be changed in udev etc to create a soft link? Any place > > where I should start digging and gotchas to lookout for? > > Unlike disks which have /dev/disk/by-{id,path,uuid}/* symlinks back to > /dev/sd*, which udev manages, network devices have no such on-disk > representation for udev to manage. My proposal to create such on-disk > mappings was shot down, as was my suggestion to create (multiple) > network device symlinks/references/aliases inside the kernel. > Ok, I'm reading your link below/libnetdevname and original patch too. I'm willing to bend over to get something done. It's so much better than getting repeatedly tortured by customers. > FWIW, I have a talk at LinuxCon Boston coming up on this, and have a > proposal in for Linux Plumbers Conference as well. > > Thanks, > Matt > Regards Chetan Loke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/