From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: david@lang.hm, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:14:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090324231448.GA21479@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090324210214.7ae65c06@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:02:14PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > this is convienient for some things, but not for others.
> >
> > what's unique and reproducable is the discovery order
>
> Not in the case of things like USB...
Or even PCI.
/me pats his laptop that reassigns PCI device ids randomly every 3rd or so boot.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: david@lang.hm, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:14:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090324231448.GA21479@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090324210214.7ae65c06@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:02:14PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > this is convienient for some things, but not for others.
> >
> > what's unique and reproducable is the discovery order
>
> Not in the case of things like USB...
Or even PCI.
/me pats his laptop that reassigns PCI device ids randomly every 3rd or so boot.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-24 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-24 15:46 Network Device Naming mechanism and policy Matt Domsch
2009-03-24 15:46 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-24 16:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-24 16:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-24 16:28 ` Kay Sievers
2009-03-24 16:28 ` Kay Sievers
2009-03-24 16:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-24 16:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-24 16:40 ` Dan Williams
2009-03-24 16:40 ` Dan Williams
2009-03-24 17:00 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-24 17:04 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-24 17:04 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-24 18:51 ` david
2009-03-24 18:51 ` david
2009-03-24 21:02 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-24 23:14 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-03-24 23:14 ` Greg KH
2009-03-24 16:42 ` Karl O. Pinc
2009-03-24 16:42 ` Karl O. Pinc
2009-03-24 17:45 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-24 17:45 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-24 17:02 ` Scott James Remnant
2009-03-24 17:52 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-24 17:52 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-24 18:12 ` Bill Nottingham
2009-03-24 18:12 ` Bill Nottingham
2009-03-24 18:20 ` Scott James Remnant
2009-03-24 18:49 ` david
2009-03-24 18:49 ` david
2009-03-24 19:22 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-24 19:22 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-24 22:57 ` David Miller
2009-03-24 22:57 ` David Miller
2009-03-25 20:22 ` Chris Friesen
2009-03-25 20:22 ` Chris Friesen
2009-03-26 20:17 ` Dan Williams
2009-03-26 20:17 ` Dan Williams
2009-03-26 16:39 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-26 16:39 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-26 20:16 ` Dan Williams
2009-03-26 20:16 ` Dan Williams
2009-03-27 16:06 ` Len Brown
2009-03-27 16:06 ` Len Brown
2009-04-09 14:58 ` Matt Domsch
2009-04-09 14:58 ` Matt Domsch
2009-03-31 14:07 ` Kurt Van Dijck
2009-03-31 14:07 ` Kurt Van Dijck
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-05 19:50 Jordan_Hargrave
2009-08-05 21:49 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-08-06 8:15 ` Alan Jenkins
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