Hi Jordan, On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Jordan Hargrave <jhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are currently two competing naming mechanisms for network cards, > biosdevname and systemd. Systemd currently has some limitations on naming > cards that use network partitioning or support SR-IOV.
Could you point to an example so we can fix it? I thought all bug reports had been handled, but maybe I lost track of something. > Proposal is to add > support for biosdevname-like names as part of systemd. The names would be > created as a new environment variable ID_NET_NAME_BIOSDEVNAME. This could > then be used in the udev rules scripts to replace the external biosdevname > handler. I don't think this makes much sense. If biosdevname had been acceptable, the udev naming scheme would not have been introduced in the first place. > At least on Dell systems, systemd generates unusable names (PCI B:D:F vs > Slot#) for add-in cards as our PCIe slots do not have the ACPI _SUN method, > but they do have a SMBIOS slot number. Wouldn't the better approach be to simply add SMBIOS support to udev then? I must admit I don't know what challenges that entails, but seems like a natural first step. Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
