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authorThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-07-01 10:11:50 -0300
committerKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2014-07-01 15:19:20 +0200
commit3058e017fced6d5c8712e10c8c1477421bc1e960 (patch)
treee39960d6b2158c1749bb74ce56753310e80d398a /NEWS
parent2834ffe78d7fd8be118429aa1449ac72641638c2 (diff)
Use dev_port for the ID of a network device.
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.
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path for the primary architecture of the system), and a
couple of drop-in directories.
+ * udev's predictable network interface names now use the dev_port
+ sysfs attribute, introduced in linux 3.15 instead of dev_id to
+ distinguish between ports of the same PCI function. dev_id should
+ only be used for ports using the same HW address, hence the need
+ for dev_port.
+
CHANGES WITH 214:
* As an experimental feature, udev now tries to lock the