From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 18:47:45 +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 > Yes. Relying on detection order for device naming in a hotplugging > system is a nightmare, anyway. It's hardcoded into many subsystems. > > printer 1 addition -> edit printcap > > printer 2 addition -> edit printcap > > printer 1 removal -> edit printcap > > > > will leave you with lp1 as your printer name > > If you reverse steps 2 and 3 you get lp0 as printer name. > > So you have to give them some other names, not based on addition/removal > order. Userspace (printcap in this case) will never be happy with names > changing no matter how much we serialize. There's the little issue of a very limited device node space. That doesn't mean that I don't agree with the diagnosis. I just don't see a way to implement the remedy cleanly. Regards Oliver _______________________________________________ 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