Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524147 --- Comment #7 from narendra_k@xxxxxxxx 2009-09-18 17:01:30 EDT --- http://linux.dell.com/git/?p=development/libnetdevname.git;a=summary(In reply to comment #5) > So if I understand what's being done by this code (the git-tree at > http://linux.dell.com/git/development/libnetdevname.git is empty, so I haven't > looked at it much), it is really here to help user-space apps that would like > to use an argument other than 'ethX' to identify the card, do so. Is that > correct? > Yes. That is correct. I would look into why the link is not working. > This doesn't cover any of the work that creates the symlinks between /dev/ethX > and /dev/net/by-chassis-label/Embedded_NIC_1. I also presume that > 'Embedded_NIC_1' is a name coming from the BIOS. Is that also correct? Yes. 'Embedded_NIC_1' is coming from smbios table type 41. This link is created with the help of "biosdevname" tool( http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#biosdevname) which would take the os given name of the interface and return the bios given name. The udev rule would look like - KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="net/%k", MODE="0666" - would create /dev/net/ethN node and SUBSYSTEM=="net", PROGRAM="/sbin/biosdevname -i %k --policy=smbios_names", SYMLINK += "net/by-chassis-id/%c" would return 'Embedded_NIC_1' -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review