On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 04:10:03PM -0500, Rob Townley wrote: > So when an add-in PCI NIC has a lower MAC than the motherboard NICs, > the add-in cards will come before the motherboard NICs. i don't like it. Actually, MAC address has nothing to do with device naming/ordering at all. Often systems will have onboard NICs in ascending MAC address order, but that's not a requirement, and I've seen systems not do that. And once you get to add-in vs onboard, BIOS wouldn't be able to enforce such an ordering anyhow (in general). But yes, you raise the point that, without using MAC-assigned names or another naming mechanism designed to cope with this, adding or removing a card can cause a difference in device enumeration, and thus name. -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
