| Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 15/33] net: xen-netback - set name assign type | From | Ian Campbell <> | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:01:26 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 10:17 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > The name contains then xen handle, which is not guaranteed to be > stable between restarts, so label this NET_NAME_ENUM.
FWIW the N'th interface for domain with domid D will always be named vifD.N.
If you reboot domain D then it's domid will change to E and the new device will be vifE.N.
I don't know if that counts as predictable as far as the interface you are introducing is concerned.
Ian.
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