> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Domsch [mailto:Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: July 09, 2010 1:15 PM > To: Loke, Chetan > Cc: Florian Weimer; linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Michael Di Domenico; > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: nic enumeration > > On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 12:27:53PM -0400, Loke, Chetan wrote: > > Ok, no renaming, I would like a reference. And symlink just doesn't > work > > w/ the udevadm trigger business. We've tried that already. > > > > What needs to be changed in udev etc to create a soft link? Any place > > where I should start digging and gotchas to lookout for? > > Unlike disks which have /dev/disk/by-{id,path,uuid}/* symlinks back to > /dev/sd*, which udev manages, network devices have no such on-disk > representation for udev to manage. My proposal to create such on-disk > mappings was shot down, as was my suggestion to create (multiple) > network device symlinks/references/aliases inside the kernel. > Ok, I'm reading your link below/libnetdevname and original patch too. I'm willing to bend over to get something done. It's so much better than getting repeatedly tortured by customers. > FWIW, I have a talk at LinuxCon Boston coming up on this, and have a > proposal in for Linux Plumbers Conference as well. > > Thanks, > Matt > Regards Chetan Loke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
