David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> 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 :)
To be honest if you can eliminate the need for ordering ethX drivers in
the kernel, I would be happy. I'm just not sure you can... you might
need a special ethX order if you have multiple cards and want to do a
netboot, or use NFSroot.
Jeff
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