On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:56 AM, <charles_r...@dell.com> wrote: > On 02/12/2014 09:21 AM, Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:12 PM, <charles_r...@dell.com> wrote: >> > From: Charles Rose <charles_r...@dell.com> >> > >> > Dell servers contain a virtual usb nic for systems management. >> > Name the device 'idrac' to easily identify it. >> >> The 75-net-description.rules is doe describe interfaces, not to carry >> out any policy. >> >> Product specific matches do not really belong into default udev rules >> shipped by systemd, we should not add more of them. >> >> They might have a place in the hardware database files. I'm not >> exactly sure though, how to apply policy from the hwdb to renaming >> network devices, there is no user like that at the moment. >> >> What tool is supposed to find that named interface? Can't it just ship >> that rule in its own file?
> The interface is generic in nature and would be used by multiple > utilities/applications to access > the iDRAC. > > The web browser, openwsman, ssh might be some of them for now. This can also > be used by customers > with custom scripts (python/shell) to fetch/set systems management > information. Tom, any opinion about adding hardware/device-specific network interface names to the hwdb, and apply them by default if nothing else specifies a name? Kay _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel