From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965148AbXG0VFp (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:05:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762425AbXG0VFh (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:05:37 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:33072 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764277AbXG0VFg (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:05:36 -0400 Message-ID: <46AA5E1A.8020303@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:05:30 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bjorn Helgaas CC: Yinghai Lu , Shaohua Li , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Dugu=E9?= , linux-kernel , ambx1@neo.rr.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, lenb@kernel.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, castet.matthieu@free.fr Subject: Re: commit 7e92b4fc34 - x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices - broke my serial console References: <20070724162805.76ea8328@frecb000686.frec.bull.fr> <200707271256.17025.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <86802c440707271335y29ca79ccq844b5cb457bd2314@mail.gmail.com> <200707271458.44391.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200707271458.44391.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > And couldn't we use udev to associate a fixed name with a MAC > address? Then the user could use the same persistent name, > regardless of the order in which the driver found the devices. I don't know about udev, but people are definitely using fixed names based on MAC address for ethernet devices already: nameif(8) and /etc/mactab, iftab(5) and ifrename(8). Jeff