Re: [PATCH] Use firmware provided index to register a network interface

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On 07/10/10 15:14, Narendra_K@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Yes, firmware and BIOS tables can be buggy. How about a command line
parameter 'no_netfwindex', passing which firmware index will not be
used to derive ethN names ? That would handle the scenario of buggy
firmware and names will be derived in the now existing way.

I will submit a patch shortly implementing this.

What was the reason for not doing this in user space again? You stated that you got races when doing renames like eth0 -> eth2, but the solution looked like renaming into a different name space such as eth0 -> ethlom2 etc. so that it wouldn't race with the names handed out by the kernel?

Tim.
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