On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Lennart Poettering <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 01.07.14 17:26, Samuli Suominen ([email protected]) wrote: > >> >> >> On 01/07/14 16:20, Kay Sievers wrote: >> > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> For network devices on the same PCI function, dev_id should not be used, >> >> since its purpose is for IPv6 support on interfaces with the same MAC >> >> address. >> >> >> >> The new dev_port sysfs attribute should be used instead of dev_id. >> > Applied. >> > >> >> I'm not complaining, merely verifying, does this mean that udev that >> will be shipped >> with systemd-215 will require at least Linux 3.15? > > Nope. The old logic was broken. The new logic works correctly, but does > so only on new kernels. If you run it on old kernels, it will gracefully > ignore the id attribute. > > So, no, it doesn't require the new kernels. It will just start working > correctly on new kernels. And on old kernels you will not get the id > appended to the name, that's all.
And it is very uncommon to have multiple ports on a single pci device. Only very few enterprise-like things do that, and some did not even use dev_id or used it wrong. Kay _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
