Re: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Mar 24 2009 - 19:51:24 EST


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:02:14PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > this is convienient for some things, but not for others.
> >
> > what's unique and reproducable is the discovery order
>
> Not in the case of things like USB...

Or even PCI.

/me pats his laptop that reassigns PCI device ids randomly every 3rd or so boot.
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