Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754564AbXJOJGj (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:06:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757899AbXJOJGY (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:06:24 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.182]:23885 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757885AbXJOJGW (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:06:22 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=S95/+WJxTpVMU4KZsnYvK8yWq73cdezYaB9lK/F28P/ZNDdcqcu3iMZ2R0KAO8FO+Krcrf51At6dcK1DsnqlWUaiHK0drp09JF7OeWN87FRYDf+751nl+dAuZgdK3k6m68litV517iOyehaGmCH/FLOf47Ai8s6tOmg2ACcgHeg= Message-ID: <646765f40710150206j75af4c4dwac4f4565451b64b1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:06:20 +1000 From: "Julian Calaby" To: "Rob Landley" Subject: Re: What still uses the block layer? Cc: "Theodore Tso" , "James Bottomley" , "Matthew Wilcox" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Jens Axboe" , "Suparna Bhattacharya" , "Nick Piggin" In-Reply-To: <200710150304.00901.rob@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200710112011.22000.rob@landley.net> <200710141845.44750.rob@landley.net> <20071015014503.GF9715@thunk.org> <200710150304.00901.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 952 Lines: 22 On 10/15/07, Rob Landley wrote: > I note that the eth0 and eth1 names are dynamically assigned on a first come > first serve basis (like scsi). This never causes me a problem because the > driver loading order is constant, and once you figure out that eth0 is > gigabit and eth1 is the 80211g it _stays_ that way across reboots, reliably. > Yeah, it's a heuristic. Hands up everybody relying on such a heuristic in > the real world. Umm, not quite, from my experiences with pre-production wireless drivers, (another story, another time) fancy stuff is being done in udev to make sure that your gigabit card is always assigned to eth0. -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com - 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/