Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:19:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> A: No.
> Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
> 
> http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top
> 
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:00:59PM -0500, Jordan_Hargrave@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > We have developed a mapping library that will convert the
> > user-friendly symlink names to the kernel names necessary for socket
> > ioctls.  All network tools that normally take ethX as argument have
> > been modified to use this mapping library.  Usually it's just a
> > one-line addition when parsing the command line arguments.
> 
> Either I missed this in the first message in this thread, or this was
> never stated before, but that is nice.  Where is this library,

I read about it here:
  http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Oss/libnetdevname#libnetdevname

Source appears to be here:
  http://linux.dell.com/git/?p=libnetdevname.git;a=summary

> and will
> it be accepted by the upstream tool maintainers?

-- 
dann frazier

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