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

2019-02-27 Thread Harini Katakam
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 12:10 AM Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:24:03 +0530 > Harini Katakam wrote: > > > Device naming is a hard problem, and there is no perfect solution. > > Device tree should be providing hints to userspace policy for naming, not > trying to do it in the

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

2019-02-27 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 10:45:44 -0800 Florian Fainelli wrote: > On 2/27/19 10:40 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:24:03 +0530 > > Harini Katakam wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> We've had some users requesting control over net device name order > >> when multiple ethernet dev

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

2019-02-27 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 2/27/19 10:40 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:24:03 +0530 > Harini Katakam wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We've had some users requesting control over net device name order >> when multiple ethernet devices are present on a system. I've tried a >> few solutions to this and looked

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

2019-02-27 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:24:03 +0530 Harini Katakam wrote: > Hi, > > We've had some users requesting control over net device name order > when multiple ethernet devices are present on a system. I've tried a > few solutions to this and looked it up on forums. But I apologize if > I have missed some

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

2019-02-27 Thread Harini Katakam
Hi, We've had some users requesting control over net device name order when multiple ethernet devices are present on a system. I've tried a few solutions to this and looked it up on forums. But I apologize if I have missed something. I know that the current system allocates eth as per probe order