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Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names



On May 13, "D. Jared Dominguez" <Jared_Dominguez@dell.com> wrote:

> >- it does not seem to me to provide any benefit over the firmware-based
> > names since in practice both would use by default an interface index
> > in the common case
> Firmware based in what sense? From the biosdevname readme, biosdevname uses:
> PCI Configuration Space
> PCI IRQ Routing Table ($PIR)
> PCMCIA Card Information Structure
> SMBIOS 2.6 Type 9, Type 41, and HP OEM-specific types
Yes, but how often in practice it is able to provide an emN name while 
at the same time udev is unable to provide an enoN name?

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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