On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:01:36 -0400 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
| > A separate discussion:
| > Ethernet cards are numbered differently by different kernels.
| > A bit annoying, and I have tried to fix this a few times,
| > but probably one just should accept it.
| > The previous time this came up people answered and said:
| > use "nameif".
|
| Two points here:
|
| 1) official answer is, "if you want stable ethernet interface naming,
| use nameif"
I did a short writeup about this. See
http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/network-interface-names.txt
| 2) I have been told more than once that ethernet device allocation order
| changed between 2.4 and 2.5. I consider this a bug, and welcome patches
| to fix it. Note, though, that the recent PCI probe order fixes that
| went in via Andrew Morton may have addressed this issue for some people.
Patch has already been posted 2 times.
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