On 03/22/2010 04:55 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: > > I don't see a problem for udev to distinguish the cards. It can do it merely on > the bus-ID. That's unique. Yeah, it might change if you change the hardware. > But do we care? I say no, because you cannot actually change the hardware in real life > for any of these devices. And even if you could reorder the devices on the bus or whatever. > What would happen? The card would get a new MAC address. That's all. That's acceptable. > > The kernel would (for example) just set the mac address to all-ones. Udev would > notice this (invalid) mac address and reassign a new persistent one to the device. It then > stores the address on the harddisk. What ensures that this persistent name would be unique? > In fact, if we implement a mechanism in the kernel, we have _exactly_ the same problem. > However, currently Larry's patches just ignore that problem and assume that there's only > one card in the system anyway. As I said in a posting a few minutes ago, that problem is solved. Larry -- 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
