On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:43:53PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:15 pm Greg KH wrote: > > > In the face of system configuration changes and kernel changes that's > > > true. But for a specific configuration it's generally stable, and people > > > definitely rely on that today. > > > > They do? In what way? > > > > It isn't stable at all. I have 2 laptops here that randomly decide to > > reassign the pci bus ids depending on the phase of the moon. Caused > > havoc with a xorg driver that was trying to "assume" that it always knew > > what the pci bus id ordering was going to be. > > Well there's one example: config files often specify specific PCI bus IDs. Config files for what? network devices usually use the MAC address to name them, and storage devices usually use a UUID or a volume label if the distro is smart :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
