Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

[Marco d'Itri]

On May 11, Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk> wrote:

> For ARM (and any other architecture using Device Tree) the on-board
> indices should be specified as aliases 'ethernet0', 'ethernet1', etc.
Is this something that I can experiment on by patching just the device 
tree definition or does it happen in the driver?
Do you have an example that I can look at?

> The aliases will be listed in the uevent as OF_ALIAS_0 (or OF_ALIAS_1,
> etc., as a device can have multiple aliases).
udev does not know about this variable, so unless the index will also 
appear somewhere else it will not be enough.

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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