From: "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: <joseph.lutz@novatechweb.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Issue with Micrel PCI Network Driver.
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:40:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2w5k8mv.fsf@nemi.mork.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360670867.5374.249.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> (Ben Hutchings's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:07:47 +0000")
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 11:10 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>
>> That should of course be fixed. But this bug should not prevent
>> userspace from renaming the device, should it? Sounds like a userspace
>> application making too many stupid assumptions to me. Does it work for
>> network devices attached to other buses?
>
> It prevents userspace from applying a naming policy that incorporates
> the PCI slot number.
Ah, right. Thanks for explaining. That makes more sense.
Bjørn
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-12 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-08 23:17 Issue with Micrel PCI Network Driver Joseph Lutz
2013-02-11 17:46 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-02-11 17:47 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-02-12 10:10 ` Bjørn Mork
2013-02-12 12:07 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-02-12 12:40 ` Bjørn Mork [this message]
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