On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 18:48, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:31:13AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: >> 1) SMBIOS type 41 method. ÂWindows does not use this today, and I >> Â Âcan't speak to their future plans. ÂNarendra's kernel patch does, >> Â Âas has biosdevname, the udev helper we first wrote for this >> Â Âpurpose, for several years. > > Then stick with that udev helper please :) What about just exporting this information in sysfs, and not touch the naming? Anyway, I'm pretty sure all of this naming of onboard devices should happen only at install time, or from a system management tool and not at hotplug time. We should not get confused by the way the (very simple) automatic-rule-creater for persistent netdev naming in udev works. This is really just a tool for the common case, and works fine for the majority of people. I'm not sure, if we should put all these special use cases in the hotplug path. I mean it's not that people add and remove 4 port network cards with special BIOS all the time, and expect proper naming on the first bootup, right? The installer, or the system management tool could just create/edit udev rules to provide proper device naming on whatever property is available at a specific hardware, be it the MAC address or some other persistent match? Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
