On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:10 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx) said: > > (location)(slot)#(port)/(instance).(vlan) > > AIUI, the kernel explicitly rejects '/' in the name (for fairly obvious > sysfs reasons.) So you'd at least need a different delimiter. There may > also be potential confusion with pci01#03:02.0001 with someone thinking > that's bus/dev/fn, if we're being really petty. ':' is also reserved for alias interfaces, the old way of assigning multiple IP addresses. I would say '-' is a good separator, but that might result in ambiguity in IRQ names. 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
