From: Josh Wyatt <jdwyatt@Bellsouth.net>
To: Tim Jansen <tim@tjansen.de>
Cc: Mark Atwood <mra@pobox.com>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work?
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 19:06:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B70746B.57C061C5@Bellsouth.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108071925040.27407-100000@infradead.org> <m3g0b3v8zq.fsf@flash.localdomain> <15UFO2-0nphWSC@fmrl03.sul.t-online.com>
Tim Jansen wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 07 August 2001 23:46, Mark Atwood wrote:
> > Userspace init scripts point the finger at kernel, saying "there is no
> > good and no well documented mapping method". Kernel points its finger
> > at userspace, saying "this is the way we do it" and "we cant guarantee
> > a perfect 100% mapping solution, so we're not even going to try for
> > 90%" and "futz with your drivers and modules.conf and init scripts
> > till you get something that works".
>
> I'm working on one a possible solution, the Device Registry
> (www.tjansen.de/devreg). It solves this problem by assigning device ids to
> physical devices. This allows you to identify a physical device, even after
> you changed tge port.
Sounds interestingly like the solaris solution to the problem,
/etc/path_to_inst.
Thanks,
Josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-07 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-03 21:29 How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work? Mark Atwood
2001-08-04 1:21 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-04 1:32 ` Thomas Duffy
2001-08-04 2:31 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-04 4:39 ` Jim Roland
2001-08-04 19:35 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-06 19:59 ` Thomas Duffy
2001-08-06 22:56 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-06 23:46 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-07 7:04 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-07 10:49 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-07 19:04 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-07 21:46 ` Mark Atwood
2001-08-07 22:33 ` Tim Jansen
2001-08-07 23:06 ` Josh Wyatt [this message]
2001-08-07 23:35 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 0:04 ` Josh Wyatt
2001-08-08 6:28 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 10:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-08 0:08 ` Mark Atwood
2001-08-08 6:40 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 8:41 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-08 10:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-08 11:40 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-08 22:04 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 21:09 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 0:11 ` Mark Atwood
2001-08-08 6:47 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 0:16 ` Mark Atwood
2001-08-08 20:26 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 9:30 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-08 21:31 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 21:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-08 22:24 ` Horst von Brand
[not found] ` <9kpub6$8fu$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-08-09 20:05 ` Colonel
2001-08-10 6:32 ` Paul Gortmaker
2001-08-10 21:25 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-15 4:32 ` Paul Gortmaker
2002-03-28 2:52 ` How to tell how much to expect from a fd Mark Atwood
2002-03-28 13:27 ` Eric Lammerts
2002-03-31 3:03 ` David Schwartz
2001-08-04 4:33 ` How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work? Jim Roland
2001-08-04 4:48 ` Jim Roland
[not found] ` <15SnZL-05h4nQC@fmrl06.sul.t-online.com>
2001-08-06 19:46 ` How to hack a network driver to use a specific ethX (was Re: How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work?) Mark Atwood
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-07 20:51 How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work? Stuart Lynne
2001-08-08 2:36 ` Bill Nottingham
2001-08-08 5:45 ` Greg KH
2001-08-08 13:59 Matt_Domsch
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