Broadcom bnxt_en network device name adds "np0" after update from RHEL 8.3 to RHEL 8.4
Issue
- Broadcom
bnxt_en
network device name addsnp0
after update from RHEL 8.2 to RHEL 8.3 and/or RHEL 8.4 - Inconsistent network naming on BCM57416 NetXtreme-E, NIC is named
enp129s0f0
on 8.2 andenp129s0f0np0
on 8.3 and 8.4
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 (
kernel-4.18.0-305.el8
) - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 (
kernel-4.18.0-240.el8
) - Broadcom NetXtreme-E 10 Gbps RDMA NIC in Ethernet mode using
bnxt_en
driver
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