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 E9D9B13838B for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:47:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE033E0B0A; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:46:57 +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 89C5CE0AFA for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:46:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 75A4F23457 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:46:54 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:46:46 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ? Message-ID: <20140926094646.050282c7@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <54245C36.50507@gentoo.org> <20140926002320.GB21773@waltdnes.org> <5424DD13.3060208@gmail.com> <20140926090759.7cf050e8@digimed.co.uk> 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_/e6qc.9HhlwkwDh85B6xzbIY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: d75b2dc2-156f-42e5-a53e-932e62f1c2d0 X-Archives-Hash: d223ff379cc0d5eae1ef46c45fce4440 --Sig_/e6qc.9HhlwkwDh85B6xzbIY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 03:22:16 -0500, Canek Pel=E1ez Vald=E9s wrote: > > 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 >=20 > That doesn't sound right. If unplugging a USB net device and plugging > it again *in the same port* results in a different device *name*, then > it is a bug and should be reported; the description of the algorithm > in [1] sounds like it should get always the same name for the same > port, unless I'm misunderstanding something. It certainly was the case. I couldn't test it directly because this laptop doesn't have support for such devices, but plugging, unplugging and replugging a USB ethernet adaptor resulted in a change of device number. I just switched to a different machine and it does indeed give the same name now, so things have been fixed and the interface names are now predictable. Ugly as hell, hard to remember, but they are predictable. --=20 Neil Bothwick Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. --Sig_/e6qc.9HhlwkwDh85B6xzbIY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlQlJ/wACgkQum4al0N1GQPMfQCbB8hJ76IaA2eFm1+gIme2U0dx hE4An2tPw+INQCgJ27daVLgL9tIHxvfO =Ridb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/e6qc.9HhlwkwDh85B6xzbIY--