[systemd-devel] persistent network device names

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Mon Jul 27 11:05:07 PDT 2015


On Mon, 27.07.15 17:52, Keller, Jacob E (jacob.e.keller at intel.com) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am working with a network device that can create virtual function
> devices. When I create a large (>8) vfs for this device I get some
> weird device names,

Not sure I fully grok, but is this about SR-IOV?

> "ens8" for physical device, but then ens8f<vf> for vf devices.. but I
> would like this to be generic for all devices that behave this way...
> and I was not sure how to do this.

Can you even detect these kinds of devices?

Lennart

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