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 5AD3E13838B for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:08:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9B2FE0931; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:08:15 +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 7E6C5E0866 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:08:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 0AF8C23EAE for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:08:06 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:07:59 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ? Message-ID: <20140926090759.7cf050e8@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5424DD13.3060208@gmail.com> References: <54245C36.50507@gentoo.org> <20140926002320.GB21773@waltdnes.org> <5424DD13.3060208@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1-119-g7fbc83 (GTK+ 2.24.24; 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_/PUH1ubPKw2qi2yRqvM7UgZe"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 1b5b53dd-1154-4c2d-90c9-f882d4d1f211 X-Archives-Hash: c0cbad36fbec54ddb2aa49c62b7f7a05 --Sig_/PUH1ubPKw2qi2yRqvM7UgZe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick The gene pool could use a little chlorine. --Sig_/PUH1ubPKw2qi2yRqvM7UgZe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlQlHuQACgkQum4al0N1GQPhHACglIExH7Nh5TQKhbZ8w6xEaBtK Yx4AoI3yqzFthi/cl5KxZASjVe2SbRGQ =uPae -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/PUH1ubPKw2qi2yRqvM7UgZe--