From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vojtech Pavlik Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 09:09:45 +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, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:36:32PM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Identifying devices by something more constant than the name which the > > kernel happens to have assigned to them today is not difficult. > > Oh that's very true. The current scheme of assigning > names by scan order sucks seriously - if you swap > your NICs around, *everything* breaks. > > Andi has a little app which renames interfaces based on > their MAC address, using SIOCSIFNAME, which is a perfectly > sensible thing to do, IMO. I think it'd be sensible to let the hotplug daemon not rename, but _assign a name/number_ to not only netdevices but every device it's notified about being created. The daemon can do the decision - it has all the necessary information. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs _______________________________________________ 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