Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:12:03 -0400 | From | Bill Nottingham <> | Subject | Re: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy |
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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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