On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 06:36:17PM -0600, Joe Nall wrote: > As someone who deals with HP DL580 boxes with 6+ NICs routinely, > this is good stuff. Deterministic naming of the built in NICs will > simplify installation instructions for us. Thanks for the good word! > Are the internal names going to be lomX or emX? embedded NICs are emX Add-in cards are pci<slot>#<port> in both cases, if the device is an SR-IOV NIC, it will append _<vf> to the name for each virtual function. Now, oddly, I don't have a lot of HP gear handy - especially not a Flex10. If someone does, I'd love to know how to tell the various partitions of a Flex10 are on the same port, so we can append _<flex10-instance> similar to SR-IOV. I'm asking the same of Broadcom who just published an update to handle NPAR for their 57712 driver to netdev over the weekend. Than -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
