On 02/12/2014 09:21 AM, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:12 PM, <charles_r...@dell.com> wrote: > > From: Charles Rose <charles_r...@dell.com> > > > > Dell servers contain a virtual usb nic for systems management. > > Name the device 'idrac' to easily identify it. > > The 75-net-description.rules is doe describe interfaces, not to carry > out any policy. > > Product specific matches do not really belong into default udev rules > shipped by systemd, we should not add more of them. > > They might have a place in the hardware database files. I'm not > exactly sure though, how to apply policy from the hwdb to renaming > network devices, there is no user like that at the moment. > > What tool is supposed to find that named interface? Can't it just ship > that rule in its own file? Kay,
The interface is generic in nature and would be used by multiple utilities/applications to access the iDRAC. The web browser, openwsman, ssh might be some of them for now. This can also be used by customers with custom scripts (python/shell) to fetch/set systems management information. > > Kay > _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
