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DateTue, 24 Mar 2009 14:12:03 -0400
FromBill Nottingham <>
SubjectRe: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy
Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch@dell.com) said: 
> > Now consider USB. Would the device name change depending on which USB
> > port you plugged it into? Or is USB just a single slot, in which case
> > what happens when you have two USB ethernet devices?
> >
> > The Apple USB Ethernet device in my iPhone is not the USB Wireless
> > adapter I own, both have very different networking configurations.
>
> we would obviously need a solution. eth_usb_{something} perhaps.

Right, but having biosdevname chase each new bus that comes along
sounds iffy. I'd prefer /dev/net/by-name symlinks, if at all
possible. But that's a lot of code that I'm not prepared to write.

Bill


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