On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 12:51 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:29:57AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > 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. > > How about underscore to separate VFs? > (location)(slot)#(port)_(instance).(vlan) That does seem like the best separator available. > And 'em' as prefix for embedded? [...] That also fits the mnemonic Ethernet on Motherboard, which is nice. 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
