Re: Initialization order of PCI devices

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 11:27:37 EST

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jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com said:
> Unfortunately since your change only supports PCI drivers, it does
> not allow us to completely ignore/eliminate a user-specified ethX
> ordering

Isn't that policy?

{Sh,C}ouldn't it be done in userspace with SIOCSIFNAME?

Devising a raceless scheme for doing this with the current implementations
of SIOCSIFNAME and init_etherdev() is left as an 'interesting' exercise for
the reader :)

-- dwmw2

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