On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Kay Sievers <k...@vrfy.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:56 AM, <charles_r...@dell.com> wrote: >> On 02/12/2014 09:21 AM, Kay Sievers wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:12 PM, <charles_r...@dell.com> wrote: >>> > From: Charles Rose <charles_r...@dell.com> >>> > >>> > Dell servers contain a virtual usb nic for systems management. >>> > Name the device 'idrac' to easily identify it. >>> >>> The 75-net-description.rules is doe describe interfaces, not to carry >>> out any policy. >>> >>> Product specific matches do not really belong into default udev rules >>> shipped by systemd, we should not add more of them. >>> >>> They might have a place in the hardware database files. I'm not >>> exactly sure though, how to apply policy from the hwdb to renaming >>> network devices, there is no user like that at the moment. >>> >>> What tool is supposed to find that named interface? Can't it just ship >>> that rule in its own file? > >> The interface is generic in nature and would be used by multiple >> utilities/applications to access >> the iDRAC. >> >> The web browser, openwsman, ssh might be some of them for now. This can also >> be used by customers >> with custom scripts (python/shell) to fetch/set systems management >> information. > > Tom, > > any opinion about adding hardware/device-specific network interface > names to the hwdb, and apply them by default if nothing else specifies > a name?
Hi Kay and Charles, I now added this to the hwdb and hooked up the .link logic to respect it by default: <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=e51660ae56bb747ece2cab8fe6eec37f4d06a438>. I don't have the hardware, so please let me know if it works for you. Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
