Re: Initialization order of PCI devices

From: Mark H. Wood (mwood@IUPUI.Edu)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 13:36:34 EST

On Tue, 23 May 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> alan@redhat.com said:
> > Arghh hello world this is becoming a broken record. MAC addresses are
> > NOT always per card.
>
> Not always, true - but if you _have_ to pick an identifying feature and you
> for some reason don't want to use the order in which they're detected by the
> kernel, then it's not a bad second option.
>
> Yes, someone will probably be able to find a box which both inits its
> ethernet cards in a nondeterministic order and doesn't have unique MAC
> addresses, but sorting on MAC would be sufficient for a lot of people, and
> as it can be done in userspace, why not?

Please tell us who has been intentionally issuing cards with non-unique
UAAs. 

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
2000-05-05 13:27:15 GMT -- still no icebergs in the White River

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed May 31 2000 - 21:00:14 EST