From: Evgeni Golov <evgeni@golov.de>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:56:07 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: udev: net_id: document predictable names for SR-IOV virtual devices
X-Git-Tag: v240~877
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eefe36e64c1a583bb9470884ed92115e0ce4647e;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

udev: net_id: document predictable names for SR-IOV virtual devices
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diff --git a/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c b/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c
index 147e04ab8ca..4dddc867738 100644
--- a/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c
+++ b/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
  * All multi-function PCI devices will carry the [f<function>] number in the
  * device name, including the function 0 device.
  *
+ * SR-IOV virtual devices are named based on the name of the parent interface,
+ * with a suffix of "v<N>", where <N> is the virtual device number.
+ *
  * When using PCI geography, The PCI domain is only prepended when it is not 0.
  *
  * For USB devices the full chain of port numbers of hubs is composed. If the