From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 23:20:26 +0000 Subject: Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well, I still want to provide a consistent and predictable > ordering of this wrt the "hotplug" of my Acenic card. > > Why? Because I don't want them to be randomly assigned > "eth0" or "eth1" depending on which way the wind is > blowing. Stop. Step back and think. Why don't you want the name to change? Surely what you actually mean to say is that you don't want stuff to break because the name has changed. Be that because the name didn't actually change, or be that just because stuff didn't break - we just want it not to break. Identifying devices by something more constant than the name which the kernel happens to have assigned to them today is not difficult. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel