biosdevname biosdevname in its simplest form takes an kernel name name as an argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it 'should' be.
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biosdevname in its simplest form takes an kernel name name as an argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it 'should' be. biosdevname in its simplest form takes an kernel name as an argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it "should" be. This is necessary on systems where the BIOS name for a given device (e.g. the label on the chassis is "Gb1") doesn't map directly and obviously to the kernel name (e.g. eth0).The distro-patches/sles10/ directory contains a patch needed to integrate biosdevname into the SLES10 udev ethernet naming rules.This also works as a straight udev rule. On RHEL4, that looks like:KERNEL=="eth*", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM="/usr/sbin/biosdevname -i %k", NAME="%c"This makes use of various BIOS-provided tables:PCI Confuration SpacePCI IRQ Routing Table ($PIR)PCMCIA Card Information StructureSMBIOS 2.6 Type 9, Type 41, and HP OEM-specific typestherefore it's likely that this will only work well on architectures that provide such information in their BIOS.What's New in This Release:· Work has been done to integrate biosdevname with udev rules cleanly.· This release, along with udev > 115, accomplishes that.· A segfault in the PCMCIA code path and another segfault have been fixed.· This release is available as a Debian package.· There are some changes to the makefile and RPM spec file.

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