Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:49515 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751591AbaC2Thj (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:37:39 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:37:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20140329.153737.671362434625537776.davem@davemloft.net> (sfid-20140329_203821_337644_20704853) To: teg@jklm.no Cc: dh.herrmann@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Provide netdev naming-policy via sysfs From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20140328.214254.1620280677250220442.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Tom Gundersen Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:46:02 +0100 > The issue I see with that is that there are several ways to generate > predictable names, and the user may want to chose between them, so > this is arguably policy that should not be in the kernel. If you don't > think that's a problem, I'd be happy to submit a patch to move all > this logic from udev to the kernel, just let me know how you see it. Unfortunately, we have already allowed this kind of thing for setting MAC addresses so I guess I'll have to allow your changes to be applied. But before I ask you to resubmit, do you have full buy-in from the udev folks for this facility? Thanks.