On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:56:08PM -0500, Bill Fink wrote: > On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Loke, Chetan wrote: > > > > Are folks sufficently confident that using anything other than "eth" > > > won't cause some unpleasant "our app always ass-u-me-d interfaces > > started with > > > 'eth'" situations? > > > > Good point. I'm sure folks use 'eth' in their regex filters. Please > > ignore my obe/obn email. > > If the 2 or 3 character name isn't a hard requirement, then > ethm for eth(ernet on )m(otherboard) would seem a natural > possibility. I went with 'em' (embedded or ethernet-on-motherboard) in biosdevname. Git tree at: http://linux.dell.com/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=biosdevname.git;a=summary Now I'm just trying to figure out why it seems pciutils libpci is unhappy when the device tree is constantly changing underneath it, such as when loading ixgbe max_vfs=63 - each new SR-IOV device created launches a new udev instance as expected, but the device tree as seen from any one of them may not be quite right as it's changing... Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO -- 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
