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Subject: Re: Issue with Micrel PCI Network Driver.
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:40:40 +0100
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Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 11:10 +0100, Bj=C3=B8rn Mork wrote:
>
>> That should of course be fixed.  But this bug should not prevent
>> userspace from renaming the device, should it? Sounds like a userspa=
ce
>> 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.


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