On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 01:45:28PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Greg KH (greg@xxxxxxxxx) said: > > > Today, port naming is completely nondeterministic. If you have but > > > one NIC, there are few chances to get the name wrong (it'll be eth0). > > > If you have >1 NIC, chances increase to get it wrong. > > > > That is why all distros name network devices based on the only > > deterministic thing they have today, the MAC address. I still fail to > > see why you do not like this solution, it is honestly the only way to > > properly name network devices in a sane manner. > > > > All distros also provide a way to easily rename the network devices, to > > place a specific name on a specific MAC address, so again, this should > > all be solved already. > > No, it's not solved. Even if you have persistent names once you install, > if you ever re-image, you're likely to get *different* persistent names; > the first load will always be non-detmerministic. > > The only way around this would be to have some sort of screen like: > > Would you like your network devices to be enumerated by > > [ ] MAC address > [ ] PCI device order > [ ] Driver name > [ ] Other [ ] PCI slot name That's one that modern systems are now reporting, and should solve Matt's problem as well, right? > which is just all sorts of fail in and of itself. Especially since > once you get to the point where you can coherently ask this in a > native installer, the drivers have already loaded. No, the driver load order doesn't determine this, you need the drivers loaded first before you can rename anything :) And I don't see how Matt's proposed patch helps resolve this type of issue any better than what we currently have today, do you? thanks, greg k-h -- 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
