Scott James Remnant (scott@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > 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 > > Remember that udev already supports symlink stacking, and priorities and > such. > > I don't think there's any danger of supporting a /dev/netdev/by-mac by > default, it'll be a benefit to most and those who don't have unique MACs > will just ignore it. At the moment, we do not appear to get the proper change uevents from things like 'ip link set dev <foo> address <bar>', so we can't currently maintain these symlinks. Bill -- 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
