Re: [PATCH net-next] Name NICs based on vmbus offer and enable async probe by default

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 22:56:30 +0000
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> -				VRSS_CHANNEL_MAX);
> +	if (probe_type == PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS) {
> +		snprintf(name, IFNAMSIZ, "eth%d", dev->channel->dev_num);

What about PCI passthrough or VF devices that are also being probed and
consuming the ethN names.  Won't there be a collision?