From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:07:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140926090759.7cf050e8@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5424DD13.3060208@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:27:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I buy machines with one ethernet interface. What I find
> > particularly annoying is this doublespeak about calling it
> > "predictable". Before the change, it was predicatbly "eth0". Now,
> > it's different on every different model.
> It's not doublespeak, the interfaces are named exactly according to
> where they are on the PCI bus. If you had two interfaces, they show up
> to the kernel in random order by time and sometimes eth0/eth1 are nto
> the same they were before the reboot.
That may be true for PCI devices but not for USB ones. If you unplug a
USB device and plug it back into the same port, it will get a different
device number. The naming is more predictable, but it's not there yet.
--
Neil Bothwick
The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-26 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-25 15:25 [gentoo-user] udev (viable) alternatives ? James
2014-09-25 17:47 ` Dale
2014-09-25 18:17 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-09-25 19:03 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-09-25 19:32 ` Dale
2014-09-26 0:23 ` Walter Dnes
2014-09-26 3:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-26 8:07 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2014-09-26 8:22 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-09-26 8:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-26 8:47 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-09-26 9:04 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-09-26 16:47 ` David W Noon
2014-09-27 2:06 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-09-26 5:04 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-11-10 11:04 ` Tanstaafl
2014-11-10 12:30 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-10 13:23 ` Tanstaafl
2014-11-10 14:23 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-10 15:48 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-11-10 16:01 ` Tanstaafl
2014-11-11 5:20 ` Walter Dnes
2014-11-11 5:33 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-11-11 5:35 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-11-11 12:18 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-13 17:08 ` Walter Dnes
2014-11-17 10:27 ` Tom H
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