Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 07:53:40AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > biosdevname installed by default, used in the installer and at runtime > > > to rename Dell and HP server onboard NICs from non-deterministic > > > "ethX" to clearly labeled "lomX" matching the chassis silkscreen. > > But why ???l

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-18 Thread Matt Domsch
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:06:17PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:32:37AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > >> I've had a few off-list conversations with various community members > >> about this. One thing that came up w

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:24:26AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > Also, I gotta say, it really shouldn't be LAN on Motherboard, since it's > just an adapter, not actually a whole lan. It should clearly be NIC on > Motherboard, or "nom". And then you could silkscreen lolcats on to the > servers, whi

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-18 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:32:37AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: >> I've had a few off-list conversations with various community members >> about this. One thing that came up was that the alternative namespace is >> necessary, but also that "lom" i

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-18 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:48:09AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > In any case, is this going to be something that can be disabled easily? > We have something like 18 years of Linux networking history that says > ethernet devices are "eth[0-9]+", and I'm not really interested in > auditing all the tool

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-18 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:32:37AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > I've had a few off-list conversations with various community members > about this. One thing that came up was that the alternative namespace is > necessary, but also that "lom" is a sub-optimal choice. One idea that > did come up was si

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-18 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jon Masters said: > I've had a few off-list conversations with various community members > about this. One thing that came up was that the alternative namespace is > necessary, I'm not sold on this, but: > but also that "lom" is a sub-optimal choice. One idea that > did come up

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-17 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 09:24 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 07:53:40AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > > biosdevname installed by default, used in the installer and at runtime > > > > to rename Dell and HP server onboard NICs from non-deterministic > > > > "ethX" to clearly l

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-14 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:57:59AM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 08:34:54PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > Greetings. > > > > > > Fedora 14 was a pretty relaxing and stable release. I'm thinking that > > > Fe

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-14 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:11:11PM -0800, John Reiser wrote: > On 11/13/2010 06:34 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > biosdevname installed by default, used in the installer and at runtime > > to rename Dell and HP server onboard NICs from non-deterministic > > "ethX" to clearly labeled "lomX" matching the

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-14 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 08:34:54PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > Fedora 14 was a pretty relaxing and stable release. I'm thinking that > > Fedora 15 may be much more exciting. ;) > > biosdevname installed by defau

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-13 Thread John Reiser
On 11/13/2010 06:34 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > biosdevname installed by default, used in the installer and at runtime > to rename Dell and HP server onboard NICs from non-deterministic > "ethX" to clearly labeled "lomX" matching the chassis silkscreen. > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-hotplug&m=1288925

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-13 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 08:34:54PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > Fedora 14 was a pretty relaxing and stable release. I'm thinking that > > Fedora 15 may be much more exciting. ;) > > biosdevname installed by defau

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans (biosdevname)

2010-11-13 Thread Matt Domsch
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Greetings. > > Fedora 14 was a pretty relaxing and stable release. I'm thinking that > Fedora 15 may be much more exciting. ;) biosdevname installed by default, used in the installer and at runtime to rename Dell and HP server onboa