Re: Request for suggestion on net device re-naming/re-ordering based on DT alias

[Harini Katakam]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 12:10 AM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:24:03 +0530
> Harini Katakam <harinik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Device naming is a hard problem, and there is no perfect solution.
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> Device tree should be providing hints to userspace policy for naming, not
> trying to do it in the kernel.
> See: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

Thanks Stephen - I'll try this.

Regards,
Harini