Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757570AbXHBNiT (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:38:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753064AbXHBNiK (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:38:10 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:54474 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753661AbXHBNiJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:38:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:38:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Michael Tokarev cc: Herbert Rosmanith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering In-Reply-To: <46B1D708.9040106@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Message-ID: References: <200708021056.l72Au722008603@wildsau.enemy.org> <46B1D708.9040106@msgid.tls.msk.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1144 Lines: 32 On Aug 2 2007 17:07, Michael Tokarev wrote: >Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Aug 2 2007 12:56, Herbert Rosmanith wrote: >>>> On Aug 2 2007 12:42, Herbert Rosmanith wrote: >>>> There never *were* days when eth0 remained eth0 across such changes. >>> but there *were* days when eth0 was eth0, if the kernel reports it as such. >>> now there is no eth0 at all. if I see an "eth0" from dmesg, I expect >>> it to be present. >> >> 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. > >That was my argument - there should be no way to *change* the name, but >to give an alias(es) - entirely different thing. Ah, in that case, make the kernel print the PCI-ID instead of the name. (Or perhaps both together.) As for userspace, you are free to do whatever you find most useful. Jan -- - 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/