Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Rasmus Villemoes <> | Subject | [PATCH v3 2/3] net: dsa: use NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE for user ports with name given in DT | Date | Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:52:03 +0100 |
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When a user port has a label in device tree, the corresponding netdevice is, to quote include/uapi/linux/netdevice.h, "predictably named by the kernel". This is also explicitly one of the intended use cases for NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE, quoting 685343fc3ba6 ("net: add name_assign_type netdev attribute"):
NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE: The ifname has been assigned by the kernel in a predictable way [...] Examples include [...] and names deduced from hardware properties (including being given explicitly by the firmware).
Expose that information properly for the benefit of userspace tools that make decisions based on the name_assign_type attribute, e.g. a systemd-udev rule with "kernel" in NamePolicy.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> --- net/dsa/slave.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/dsa/slave.c b/net/dsa/slave.c index d19e9a536b8f..dfefcc4a9ccf 100644 --- a/net/dsa/slave.c +++ b/net/dsa/slave.c @@ -2385,7 +2385,7 @@ int dsa_slave_create(struct dsa_port *port) if (port->name) { name = port->name; - assign_type = NET_NAME_UNKNOWN; + assign_type = NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE; } else { name = "eth%d"; assign_type = NET_NAME_UNKNOWN; -- 2.37.2
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