On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 11:41 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 09:51 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > As has been noted here, MAC addresses are not necessarily unique to an > > interface. As such, we are not proposing a net/by-mac/* symlink to > > /dev/netdev/*. > > > On the other hand, they *tend* to be unique for a wide range of systems. > This makes them pretty comparable to LABELs on disks, and we have > a /dev/disk/by-label [...] MAC addresses are normally assigned automatically but can be overridden if necessary. In that respect they are more like UUIDs for disks. I don't see any analogue of disk labels, though labels could conceivably be added to some NICs using VPD. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
