On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 07:43 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 13:46 +0200, Tambet Ingo wrote: > > Why not use HAL UDI for device names to get at least some sort of > > human-readable names? > > We could provide mapping functions, but this is mostly for the D-Bus > object paths for objects. HAL UDIs have / in them, which are object > paths.
The full UDI path does, yes, but the name component of it would be fine.
E.g, my machine has card has the following UDIs for network interfaces:
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_01_29_82_08_a3 (eth0)
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_11_95_be_05_03 (ath0)
so NM could quite easily use net_00_01_29_82_08_a3 and
net_00_11_95_be_05_03 for internal device names. They appear to be based
on the MAC address, so should be fairly robust against device renaming.
Simon.
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