Agreed. If we have a single device naming standard, any sysadmin is
guaranteed to have consistent device names across all Linux machines
they may encounter. Multiple naming schemes (and particularly custom
naming at the whim of the kernel compiler) break this in a big way.
For those of us that make money from Linux consulting, going into a
site and saying "I'm sorry, this will take more time (and hence money)
than normal while I try and work out your device naming scheme" isn't
going to cut it.
Tet
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