Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:37:37 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Provide netdev naming-policy via sysfs | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:46:02 +0100
> The issue I see with that is that there are several ways to generate > predictable names, and the user may want to chose between them, so > this is arguably policy that should not be in the kernel. If you don't > think that's a problem, I'd be happy to submit a patch to move all > this logic from udev to the kernel, just let me know how you see it.
Unfortunately, we have already allowed this kind of thing for setting MAC addresses so I guess I'll have to allow your changes to be applied.
But before I ask you to resubmit, do you have full buy-in from the udev folks for this facility?
Thanks.
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