Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757101AbXHBOwE (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:52:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754746AbXHBOvz (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:51:55 -0400 Received: from users.crfreenet.org ([81.92.145.1]:32852 "EHLO mail.crfreenet.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751008AbXHBOvy (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:51:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:51:52 +0200 From: Ondrej Zajicek To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Michael Tokarev , Herbert Rosmanith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: renaming kernel devices [was: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering] Message-ID: <20070802145152.GB19346@localhost.localdomain> References: <200708021056.l72Au722008603@wildsau.enemy.org> <46B1BEB8.70104@msgid.tls.msk.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (Sarge) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1178 Lines: 25 On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 01:47:23PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > It does not rename ethX to the "next free" one, but to a _persistent_ one. > If it were a "next free" thing, then removing a card would shuffle all > your eth around again (and invalidate your iptables rules at the same > time, to note). It is questionable what is _persistent_ . MAC-based names are persistent with regard to adding and removing of other cards, 'Plain' names are persistent with regard to replacing that card with different item (of a same kind). I am very happy that (using 'plain' names) i can send technician to replace broken NIC in our routers without need for configuration change. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org, jabber: santiago@njs.netlab.cz) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so." - 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/