On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 07:05:14PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > 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. Windows does not use this today, and I > >> can't speak to their future plans. Narendra's kernel patch does, > >> as has biosdevname, the udev helper we first wrote for this > >> purpose, for several years. > > > > Then stick with that udev helper please :) > > What about just exporting this information in sysfs, and not touch the naming? I think this is now exported in userspace, right Narendra? > 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? I totally agree. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
