Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755969AbZCXXvX (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:51:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753967AbZCXXvD (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:51:03 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:38367 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753802AbZCXXvB (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:51:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:14:48 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Alan Cox Cc: david@lang.hm, Dan Williams , Patrick McHardy , Matt Domsch , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy Message-ID: <20090324231448.GA21479@kroah.com> References: <20090324154617.GA16332@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <49C9087C.5070907@trash.net> <1237912858.9082.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090324210214.7ae65c06@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090324210214.7ae65c06@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 566 Lines: 15 On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:02:14PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > this is convienient for some things, but not for others. > > > > what's unique and reproducable is the discovery order > > Not in the case of things like USB... Or even PCI. /me pats his laptop that reassigns PCI device ids randomly every 3rd or so boot. -- 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/