On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> Jesse Keating wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 13:24 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >>>> >>>> Agreed, but when the kernel hardware detection order was predictable, >>>> this was simple. Now it isn't. >>> >>> When was it predictable? Even in the 2.4 era, we'd get one chassis >>> barebones from a vender like supermicro and the nic order would be one >>> way, then next month we'd order the same chassis barebones and the nics >>> would be picked up in a different order. Even more fun is when they'd >>> change with a kernel update, so that the kernel we installed with had >>> one order, and the kernel we updated to and rebooted to had it in a >>> different order. >> >> I'm pretty sure I cloned Centos 3.x across at least 50 IBM 336's with the >> NICs always being chosen in the same order. > > That is just being lucky. Even in 2.4 kernel the order wasn't always > predictable. It changed and there was a post from Linus in LKML about > considering making it deliberately random to avoid any misconceptions that > it can always be predictable. It includes details on why it isn't as well. I > am sure you can find good references. Black. No kool-aid drinkers need reply. The rest of us know your answer. jerry -- There's plenty of youth in America - it's time we find the "fountain of smart". -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
