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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:14:48 +0000
Subject: Re: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy
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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

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.