On 08/10/2011 01:35 PM, Robin Holt wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 01:27:52PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: >> "...and then associate the label with an alias." >> >> The alias can then be used if you want "can0" versus "can1". > > Does the alias get used by either the kernel or something else or is it > just extra detail with no purpose?
It could be used by udev to produce a symlink. Currently, the major non-human consumer of the aliases is U-Boot. -Scott _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
