From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
"Shaohua Li" <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
"Sébastien Dugué" <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ambx1@neo.rr.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, lenb@kernel.org,
rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org,
castet.matthieu@free.fr
Subject: Re: commit 7e92b4fc34 - x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices - broke my serial console
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:05:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46AA5E1A.8020303@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707271458.44391.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> And couldn't we use udev to associate a fixed name with a MAC
> address? Then the user could use the same persistent name,
> regardless of the order in which the driver found the devices.
I don't know about udev, but people are definitely using fixed names
based on MAC address for ethernet devices already: nameif(8) and
/etc/mactab, iftab(5) and ifrename(8).
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-27 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-24 14:28 commit 7e92b4fc34 - x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices - broke my serial console Sébastien Dugué
2007-07-24 15:48 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-24 17:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-24 18:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-24 19:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-24 18:17 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-07-24 19:53 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-24 20:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-24 20:33 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-07-25 2:34 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-25 4:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-07-25 12:55 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-25 15:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-07-25 16:11 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-25 16:45 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-07-24 20:34 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-24 20:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-24 20:56 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-24 21:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-24 22:07 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <p73ir88sax1.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
2007-07-25 15:48 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-25 16:06 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-25 16:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-25 17:34 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-25 17:38 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-24 22:06 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-25 7:45 ` Sébastien Dugué
2007-07-25 13:16 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-25 13:32 ` Sébastien Dugué
2007-07-25 13:38 ` Sébastien Dugué
2007-07-25 22:41 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-26 0:37 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-07-26 1:35 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-07-26 2:21 ` Shaohua Li
2007-07-26 3:33 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-27 18:16 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-27 18:38 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-07-27 18:56 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-27 20:35 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-07-27 20:58 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-27 21:05 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-07-27 21:53 ` Kay Sievers
2007-07-29 17:21 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-07-29 18:03 ` Russell King
2007-07-26 8:08 ` Sébastien Dugué
2007-07-25 15:51 ` Yinghai Lu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-22 21:04 Linus 2.6.23-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2007-07-23 18:38 ` 2.6.23-rc1: BUG_ON in kmap_atomic_prot() Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-23 19:01 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-23 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-23 20:40 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-23 21:01 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-23 21:11 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-23 21:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-24 17:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-24 18:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-26 6:09 ` commit 7e92b4fc34 - x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices - broke my serial console H. Peter Anvin
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