Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

From: Matt Domsch <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:06:37 -0600

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 09:49:21AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Nov 04, [email-masked] wrote:
> 
> > SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
> > ATTR{smbios_name}=="Embedded_NIC_1", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
> > NAME="eth0".
> As a distribution developer I highly value solutions like this which do
> not require patching every application which deals with interface names
> and then teaching users about aliases which only work in some places and
> are unknown to the kernel.

Fair enough - but would you object if we changed the naming scheme
from eth%d to something else?

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
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