On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andreas Besse <besse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > yes if there are different drivers I already observed the behaviour that > the ordering gets flipped after reboot. > > But if I assume, that there is only *one* driver that is loaded (e.g. > budget_av) for all dvb cards in the system, how is the ordering of these > devices determined? How does the driver "search" for available dvb cards? I believe your assumption is incorrect. I believe the enumeration order is not deterministic even for multiple instances of the same driver. It is not uncommon to hear mythtv users complain that "I have two PVR-150 cards installed in my PC and the order sometimes get reversed on reboot". Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
