Bug 673267

Summary: failure to rename onboard devices
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Brock Organ <borgan>
Component: biosdevnameAssignee: Matt Domsch <matt_domsch>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: borgan, harald, matt_domsch, mebrown
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Description Brock Organ 2011-01-27 21:42:58 UTC
When listing the devices in the post-installed system, the expectation is that the on-board devices will be renamed like this:

# ls /sys/class/net/
em1  em2  em3 lo


However, the actual behavior doesn't show the rename, and instead unexpectedly shows:

# ls /sys/class/net 
eth0  eth1  eth2  lo
#

Comment 1 Brock Organ 2011-01-27 21:43:42 UTC
here are the system and test specific details:

* for biosdevname test day:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-01-27_Network_Device_Naming_With_Biosdevname#Report_your_results

* testing on board device renaming test case:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_biosdevname_on-board_network_interface_names

* using a default package install from rawhide 01-26 repo:

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/rawhide-20110126/rawhide/x86_64/os/

* smolt hardware profile:
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_07e18a2d-451f-46e8-82c0-1e393ef7c828

Comment 2 Matt Domsch 2011-01-27 22:46:37 UTC
Brock: can I get output of:
dmidecode
biosdecode
biosdevname -d

please?

Comment 3 Brock Organ 2011-01-28 16:44:40 UTC
Created attachment 475830 [details]
response to mdomsch's request ...


Hi Matt, here's the info ...

(In reply to comment #2)
> Brock: can I get output of:
> dmidecode
> biosdecode
> biosdevname -d
> 
> please?

Comment 4 Matt Domsch 2011-01-28 17:11:51 UTC
This system does not expose any information in SMBIOS about its devices or slots, and does not expose a PCI IRQ Routing Table.  Therefore, there is nothing that biosdevname can do to provide "better" names.

Closing as "working as designed".