[systemd-devel] [PATCH] udev: make net_id more robust

[Sean McGovern]

On Monday, June 10, 2013, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Sean McGovern <gseanmcg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is definitely not a common case as almost all of the other Linux
machines I have access to expose a network controller in domain 0.
>
> Yeah, I've only seen domains used on huge SGI machines. 256 PCI buses
> are quite a lot for a normal machine. :)
>
>> At least in my case each of the domains has a bus ID unique to amongst
all of the domains, but I'm reasonably sure this isn't mandated by the PCI
specifications.
>
> They don't share the numbers, yeah.
>
>> 0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC (Sun GEM)
(rev 80)
>
> We could add a P<domain> or m<domain> in front:
>   enP2p32s15
>   enm2p32s15
>
> Or something else, we just have to pick one. :)
>
> And we would suppress that for all the common domain == 0x0000 cases.
>
> Kay

OK. Would you like me to cook up a better patch with this suggestion?

-- Sean McG
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