Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756214AbXHBMAv (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:00:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754543AbXHBMAo (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:00:44 -0400 Received: from wildsau.enemy.org ([193.170.194.34]:33116 "EHLO wildsau.enemy.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754513AbXHBMAo (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:00:44 -0400 From: Herbert Rosmanith Message-Id: <200708021200.l72C0Vbx008657@wildsau.enemy.org> Subject: Re: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering In-Reply-To: To: Jan Engelhardt Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:00:31 +0200 (MET DST) CC: Michael Tokarev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL100 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 810 Lines: 18 > Wait, you forget that something may change the name. That dmesg message > from 1 second ago does not need to be valid anymore, just as anything > else in this world. there are many things in this world which are usually very persistent, and people rely on their persistence. e.g. in my office, I assume the phone number is still the same I used 1 second ago ... but what has this to do with ethernet device names? well: I expected the names persist - like they did without udev. I'm used that things persist, as probably the rest of the world :-) cheers, herp - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/