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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: jt@hpl.hp.com
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order
Date: 08 May 2003 22:46:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1052430385.13567.17.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030508193245.GA26721@bougret.hpl.hp.com>

On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 20:32, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 	My belief is that configuration scripts should be specified in
> term of MAC address (or subset) and not in term of device name. Just
> like the Pcmcia scripts are doing it.
> 	And let's go the extra mile : ifconfig should accept a MAC
> address as the argument instead of a device name. And in the long
> term, just get rid of device name from the user view.

Current Red Hat supports naming interfaces by their mac address. That
keeps most people happy except some sparc and embedded users who have
one mac per host not per card (and yes that *is* allowed by the
802.x spec)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-08 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-08 19:32 The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-08 21:43 ` Eli Carter
2003-05-08 22:19   ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-08 21:46 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-05-08 23:23   ` Randy.Dunlap
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-10  7:42 Thomas Hood
2003-05-08 23:38 Ray Lee
2003-05-09 12:41 ` Dick Streefland
2003-05-09 14:33 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-05-07 13:14 Russell King
2003-05-07 15:18 ` Dick Streefland
2003-05-07 15:38   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-07 15:24 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-07 17:14   ` Russell King
2003-05-07 22:04     ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-07 22:28       ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-08 12:05         ` David S. Miller
2003-05-08 14:55           ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 14:54             ` David S. Miller
2003-05-08 16:24               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-05-08 16:26               ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-08 16:30                 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-11 18:41                   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-08 17:56               ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-05-08 17:36           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-09  6:51           ` Richard Henderson

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