From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5298B138010 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 06:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 067C9E0B05; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 06:53:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76AACE0AFB for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 06:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7339F8008D for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 07:53:37 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 07:53:29 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes Message-ID: <20130401075329.74634752@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130331213451.66cd2fe0@kc-sys.chadwicks.me.uk> References: <515701AE.9010509@libertytrek.org> <20130331154009.73dd7363@kc-sys.chadwicks.me.uk> <20130331205500.292878cd@digimed.co.uk> <20130331213451.66cd2fe0@kc-sys.chadwicks.me.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0-156-gf9f793 (GTK+ 2.24.17; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/mZVEt/Sfkdt4rWqA896qiB1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ed3296b3-3ac0-4ff0-8385-fbba05a29859 X-Archives-Hash: 98f025cf183d8163b79950ffd70603ae --Sig_/mZVEt/Sfkdt4rWqA896qiB1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:34:51 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > What about USB network adaptors? A user may not even realise they > > plugged it into a different USB slot from last time, yet the device > > name changes. =20 >=20 > Fair point but wouldn't that be only if you plug in two of the same > type that the names may switch? According to Flameyes' blog, if you have only one adaptor, its name will change according to the port used, which is a rather different definition of "persistent" than I have been used to. --=20 Neil Bothwick All mail what i send is thoughly proof-red, definately! --Sig_/mZVEt/Sfkdt4rWqA896qiB1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFZLu8ACgkQum4al0N1GQOefACfTygI0tDctotnlwngUaAwczDW MpgAnRAF7yAF3DzvOyVZ8aYSe0laOprt =TNZB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/mZVEt/Sfkdt4rWqA896qiB1--