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When a user port has a label in device tree, the corresponding
netdevice is, to quote include/uapi/linux/netdevice.h, "predictably
named by the kernel". This is also explicitly one of the intended use
cases for NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE, quoting 685343fc3b ("net: add
name_assign_type netdev attribute"):
NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE:
The ifname has been assigned by the kernel in a predictable way
[...] Examples include [...] and names deduced from hardware
properties (including being given explicitly by the firmware).
Expose that information properly for the benefit of userspace tools
that make decisions based on the name_assign_type attribute,
e.g. a systemd-udev rule with "kernel" in NamePolicy.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faineli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.