From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Victor Lowther Subject: Re: Issues with dracut and network device naming Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:32:15 -0500 Message-ID: <1251725535.8731.30.camel@sentry-no> References: <4A97CA1A.5080606@redhat.com> <1251470171.1305.144.camel@perihelion.bos.jonmasters.org> <4A9BB155.8020106@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:subject:from:to:cc :in-reply-to:references:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:date :message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; bh=bvbASXPdJd1Otw/LBAYRlpciUcgxTeeTpqKKiuoGLT0=; b=O9ne/Pp4fy81NCgWl1PzPiqxVX6vsI6RdoR3fZNiRWpY9q+ExgIEXMa1Xj6e1ZPRUb vRXsnzxVywqdK9Rs/ksjf7IV610xrqkTtZQh96VNwR7gAECylGHXoBi8TbQ2tuKKqrI3 k7CT7Hh5grvzI617LTsGZPjr46/Qub+nlajDA= In-Reply-To: <4A9BB155.8020106-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Hans de Goede Cc: Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux Installer , initramfs On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 13:17 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi all, > But in the future it could also be something like for example: > ifname=eth0:/sys/devices/bus/pci/00:00:00:01.5 Hmmm... what guarantee is there that PCI device ordering is stable? MAC addresses have the advantage of not being subject to change because you flashed the system BIOS and things are enumerated in a different order, or you decided to add a multifunction card that adds its own brand-new set of PCI busses, and your dodgy BIOS decides to renumber everything. > Regards, > > Hans > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html