Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-12-01 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:11:52PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:13:30PM +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote: > > Good day, > > > > Am Dienstag, den 30.11.2010, 13:04 -0600 schrieb Matt Domsch: > > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:48:05PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > > On 11/29/

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-12-01 Thread Matt Domsch
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 01:18:09PM -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 11/30/2010 05:24 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:22:54PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:18:10PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > >>> Many desktops have dual-NICs. I'm typin

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-12-01 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Przemek Klosowski wrote: > Huh? so the first device (handle 2D) will be called 'em0' and the second > device (handle 3D) will be also called 'em0'? 2D and 3D reference one NIC. I only had one NIC in my e-mail to avoid it being lengthy. ;) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https:

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-12-01 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 11/30/2010 05:24 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:22:54PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:18:10PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >>> Many desktops have dual-NICs. I'm typing from an SMBIOS 2.6 ASUS desktop >>> motherboard with dual-NICs. >>> >>> Han

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-12-01 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/01/2010 10:13 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Because it's not so almighty. In BSD-land, including Solaris, the devices > are named after the driver, so you get /dev/sis0 and /dev/bge1 and > /dev/e1000g0 and whatnot. > That BSD scheme suffers the same pitfalls as the current fedora scheme

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-12-01 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:29:32PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Interesting work, Matt. I'm surprised the Unix purists who would fight > you to death to keep sendmail on desktops would allow you to change the > almighty eth* naming scheme. Because it's not so almighty. In BSD-land, includ

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-12-01 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/01/2010 07:55 AM, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 01:33:33 + (UTC), Ben Boeckel wrote: > >> Why? FreeBSD (and other BSDs, I'm sure) have been naming network >> interfaces based on the manufacturer, at least, for a while now (I >> personally started with 7.x and am uns

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-12-01 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 01:33:33 + (UTC), Ben Boeckel wrote: > Why? FreeBSD (and other BSDs, I'm sure) have been naming network > interfaces based on the manufacturer, at least, for a while now (I > personally started with 7.x and am unsure of when that was new). I was > always curious why eth

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-12-01 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 14:04 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 12/01/2010 01:50 PM, Jon Masters wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 16:29 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > >> > >> OK. Perhaps the wiki should be updated to state the feature works more > >> generically (SMBIOS 2.6+) and not for just D

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/01/2010 01:50 PM, Jon Masters wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 16:29 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> >> OK. Perhaps the wiki should be updated to state the feature works more >> generically (SMBIOS 2.6+) and not for just Dell/HP systems? > +1 > > And also, I'd love to see fewer attacks on

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-12-01 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 16:29 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Matt Domsch wrote: > >> > Yes, your system, on new install, or if you delete > >> > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and the HWADDR lines from > >> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*, will then use the new names. > >

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 06:36:17PM -0600, Joe Nall wrote: > As someone who deals with HP DL580 boxes with 6+ NICs routinely, > this is good stuff. Deterministic naming of the built in NICs will > simplify installation instructions for us. Thanks for the good word! > Are the internal names going t

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Ben Boeckel
Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Interesting work, Matt. I'm surprised the Unix purists who would fight > you to death to keep sendmail on desktops would allow you to change the > almighty eth* naming scheme. Why? FreeBSD (and other BSDs, I'm sure) have been naming network interfaces based on the m

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Joe Nall
On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:29:32PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> Matt Domsch wrote: > Yes, your system, on new install, or if you delete > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and the HWADDR lines from > /etc/sysconfig/netw

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:29:32PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Matt Domsch wrote: > >> > Yes, your system, on new install, or if you delete > >> > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and the HWADDR lines from > >> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*, will then use the new name

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Matt Domsch wrote: >> > Yes, your system, on new install, or if you delete >> > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and the HWADDR lines from >> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*, will then use the new names. > specifically, em0 for the above device, and em for the > second NIC spe

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:22:54PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:18:10PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > Matt Domsch wrote: > > > I don't expect desktops to expose > > > this information - they have only 1 NIC. > > > > Many desktops have dual-NICs. I'm typing from an

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:18:10PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Matt Domsch wrote: > > I don't expect desktops to expose > > this information - they have only 1 NIC. > > Many desktops have dual-NICs. I'm typing from an SMBIOS 2.6 ASUS desktop > motherboard with dual-NICs. > > Handle 0x002

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread John Reiser
On 11/30/2010 01:12 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > I don't expect desktops to expose > this information - they have only 1 NIC. There are 2 built-in NIC ports on at least a couple ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards that have been sold into the "desktop" market in the last couple years. My desktops also ha

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Matt Domsch wrote: > I don't expect desktops to expose > this information - they have only 1 NIC. Many desktops have dual-NICs. I'm typing from an SMBIOS 2.6 ASUS desktop motherboard with dual-NICs. Handle 0x002D, DMI type 10, 6 bytes On Board Device Information Type: Ethernet

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:13:30PM +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote: > Good day, > > Am Dienstag, den 30.11.2010, 13:04 -0600 schrieb Matt Domsch: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:48:05PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > On 11/29/2010 08:27 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:17:2

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 03:25:45PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Matt Domsch wrote: > > I've pushed the comps change to pull biosdevname into @base by > > default. And I've posted a patch to anaconda-devel-list to pull > > biosdevname into the installtime environment. Cross your fingers, >

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Matt Domsch wrote: > I've pushed the comps change to pull biosdevname into @base by > default. And I've posted a patch to anaconda-devel-list to pull > biosdevname into the installtime environment. Cross your fingers, > this is gonna be great! Could anaconda not be smart enough to pull this in t

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:13:30PM +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote: > Good day, > > Am Dienstag, den 30.11.2010, 13:04 -0600 schrieb Matt Domsch: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:48:05PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > On 11/29/2010 08:27 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:17:2

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Fabian Deutsch
Good day, Am Dienstag, den 30.11.2010, 13:04 -0600 schrieb Matt Domsch: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:48:05PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 11/29/2010 08:27 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:17:22AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > >> I've just pushed biosdevname-0.3.1 into

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Matt Domsch
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 02:37:04AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >On 12/01/2010 12:34 AM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > Can you expand the release notes section of > > [1]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming > > Please include the benefits in that. > > Done. > >

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/01/2010 12:34 AM, Matt Domsch wrote: Can you expand the release notes section of http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming Please include the benefits in that. Done. Can you explain why only those particular HP and Dell models are affected by this change? I

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-30 Thread Matt Domsch
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:48:05PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/29/2010 08:27 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:17:22AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > >> I've just pushed biosdevname-0.3.1 into rawhide. This is not yet > >> installed by default as part of @base, nor is it

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/29/2010 08:27 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:17:22AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: >> I've just pushed biosdevname-0.3.1 into rawhide. This is not yet >> installed by default as part of @base, nor is it used by anaconda, but >> those changes will come over the next few days.

Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-29 Thread Matt Domsch
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:17:22AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > I've just pushed biosdevname-0.3.1 into rawhide. This is not yet > installed by default as part of @base, nor is it used by anaconda, but > those changes will come over the next few days. I've pushed the comps change to pull biosdevna

biosdevname hitting rawhide

2010-11-28 Thread Matt Domsch
I've just pushed biosdevname-0.3.1 into rawhide. This is not yet installed by default as part of @base, nor is it used by anaconda, but those changes will come over the next few days. biosdevname, on at least Dell 10G and newer, and HP 6G and newer servers, provides "better" BIOS-suggested names