udev/net_id: don't generate slot based names if multiple devices might claim the same slot
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@@ -192,6 +192,9 @@
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<para>SR-IOV virtual devices are named based on the name of the parent interface, with a suffix of
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<constant>v</constant> and the virtual device number, with any leading zeros removed. The bus
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number is ignored.</para>
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<para>In some configurations a parent PCI bridge of a given network controller may be associated
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with a slot. In such case we don't generate this device property to avoid possible naming conflicts.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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@@ -354,6 +357,17 @@
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multiple similarly named containers (who only differ in container name suffix) should be less
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likely (but still possible, since the 24bit hash value is very small).</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><constant>v246</constant></term>
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<listitem><para>If the PCI slot is assocated with PCI bridge and that has multiple child network
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controllers then all of them might derive the same value of <varname>ID_NET_NAME_SLOT</varname>
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property. That could cause naming conflict if the property is selected as a device name. Now, we detect the
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situation, slot - bridge relation, and we don't produce the <varname>ID_NET_NAME_SLOT</varname> property to
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avoid possible naming conflict.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<para>Note that <constant>latest</constant> may be used to denote the latest scheme known (to this
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