On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:39:50PM +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote: > Paul Davis wrote: > > >Maybe users should use names, but apps shouldn't be doing this. They > >would become totally non-portable. > > Well, I just rolled 2.6.18-rt7 (was on 2.6.15) and the device numbers > are completely reshuffled. I would imagine any setup that relies on the > device numbers (and not names) would be totally messed up in situations > such as these. IMHO card number should be static and setup by system conf (index=xx module option), that sounds much cleaner to me. David.