From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Reiser Subject: want same order in /sys/class/net/eth as /sys/bus/pci/devices Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:59:53 -0700 Message-ID: <46F3EA79.4060700@BitWagon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from jade.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.136]:57050 "EHLO jade.aracnet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754925AbXIUQGo (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:06:44 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.4] (216-99-213-225.dsl.aracnet.com [216.99.213.225]) (authenticated bits=0) by jade.aracnet.com (8.13.6/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l8LFxclX021187 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:59:38 -0700 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org I'd like to see the same order of devices in /sys/class/net/eth* as in /sys/bus/pci/devices. This would make administration easier. On Fedora 8 tests, the order I see is reversed: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291431 Perhaps the reversal is a result of the alias order listed in /etc/modprobe.conf. But the alias order was obtained from some source. Was the first reversal due to a user-space program (such as the anaconda installer), or due to something within the kernel? -- John Reiser, jreiser@BitWagon.com