On Monday 28 July 2008 15:57:45 Dan Williams wrote: > > (What are the udev problems, btw?) > > People seem to want persistent device names. Since the kernel doesn't > provide stable device/bus enumeration, there are udev hacks (see > attached from Fedora 9) that read the MAC address of the card on > hot-plug and then assign it to a cached device name so that every time I > plug in my Netgear MA401 it gets "eth2". Yeah well. But using a pseudo-random MAC as a base to build a persistent naming scheme on sounds pretty fragile to me. ;) I think cards that don't supply MAC early simply cannot support a really working persistent naming scheme well. udev should probably just enumerate eth0 - ethX as it sees the devices. That's as good as mixing a numbering scheme into a pseudo MAC, IMO. And it's less confusing and it pushes a lot of policy decisions into userspace. -- Greetings Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
