Re: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:02:14PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

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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.