On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 09:20 -0600, dann frazier wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:32:50PM +0530, Narendra_K@xxxxxxxx wrote: [...] > > And how would the regular file look like in terms of holding ifindex of > > the interface, which can be passed to libnetdevname. > > I can't think of anything we need to store in the regular file. If we > have the kernel name for the device, we can look up the ifindex in > /sys. Correct me if I'm wrong, but storing it ourselves seems > redundant. But the name of a netdev can change whereas its ifindex never does. Identifying netdevs by name would require additional work to update the links when a netdev is renamed and would still be prone to race conditions. This is why Narendra and Matt were proposing to store the ifindex in the node all along... 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
