On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:55:14AM -0500, Alexander Dupuy wrote: > Ben wrote: > > > Having thought about this some more, I think the idea is sound. But the > > name needs work. Because of the overloading of the acronym LOM I propose > > you change it to "NIC On Motherboard" or nomX (-: > > > > Another suggestion from an IT colleague of mine was "Motherboard Ethernet" > > or methX. It's closer to ethX and therefore easier to remember/associate. > > > > I also agree that the lomX naming is not particularly intuitive. I like > methX better, but I would suggest that ethmX would be the best choice, > as it will work as-is with code that is a bit sloppier and just checks > for eth*, and with code that is pickier, can be handled with a simple > optional single-character check, even in C code. Scripting languages > will probably use regexes, which are easier to modify, but scripts with > grep (basic, not extended) regexes may find it easier to use ethm?\d+ > rather than switch to extended regexes for (eth|lom)\d+.
I was worried about such too, a while back, but it seems that most tools have removed any name-based regexes anymore, exactly because there are lots of names in use in the wild, ethX isn't meaningful if ever it was. Do you have examples of tools that still have such restrictive regexes? We can look at patching those... I just patched biosdevname to use 'enX'. For now at least... Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
