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
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:12:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090324181202.GE5925@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090324175203.GB22700@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-24 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-24 15:46 Matt Domsch
2009-03-24 16:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-24 16:28 ` Kay Sievers
2009-03-24 16:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-24 16:40 ` Dan Williams
2009-03-24 17:00 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-24 17:04 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-24 18:51 ` david
2009-03-24 21:02 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-24 23:14 ` Greg KH
2009-03-24 16:42 ` Karl O. Pinc
2009-03-24 17:45 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-24 17:02 ` Scott James Remnant
2009-03-24 17:52 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-24 18:12 ` Bill Nottingham [this message]
2009-03-24 18:20 ` Scott James Remnant
2009-03-24 18:49 ` david
2009-03-24 19:22 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-24 22:57 ` David Miller
2009-03-25 20:22 ` Chris Friesen
2009-03-26 20:17 ` Dan Williams
2009-03-26 16:39 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-26 20:16 ` Dan Williams
2009-03-27 16:06 ` Len Brown
2009-04-09 14:58 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-31 14:07 ` Kurt Van Dijck
2009-08-05 19:50 Jordan_Hargrave
2009-08-05 21:49 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-08-06 8:15 ` Alan Jenkins
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