On Tue, 08.01.13 13:37, Holger Winkelmann (h...@travelping.com) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I.e. fe0/01 for fast Ethernet port in first slot with a multi port NIC. > > > > Well, as these names show up in sysfs and hence in the file system they > > can't really include slashes since that's not allowed in file > > names. This is a general kernel limitation. > > I know about limitations in Kernel and have seen some efforts in the past > to avoid this. but generally I don't think it would be successful to go down > the road to allow slashes. > > > For your example the new code would pick a name of "enp0s0d0", i.e. for > > pci bus 0, slot 0, and dev_id 0. > > It would take some time to geht used for this names, anyway... > In your link below I have seen "ID_NET_NAME_ONBOARD_LABEL=Ethernet > Port 1" > > can anybody explain where this label is being exposed to userland tools for > display and management purposes?
These are udev properties. You can easily query them with libudev, or from the command line: udevadm info /sys/class/net/eno1 Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel