From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-158951-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DC813838B for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:22:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD15DE0ABB; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:22:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-f179.google.com (mail-ie0-f179.google.com [209.85.223.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B2CE4E09D8 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:22:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f179.google.com with SMTP id tp5so10090124ieb.24 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 01:22:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ah8wA8K8QSZqsURbyqQcV+fP1uNTX4mMDbJBzQhLHFw=; b=QX+X0zZIcLi1zummVvtoJNT6R7MbgEVEUG7wne4q22s8NRrl7BXKb0uA4HiVS0+0MR WxtQc+1NmLLtrpH18ISOu/GHtuhk6/csjTAKte1/i7i+TGtymuVyJrIvxalkqYYna0Mw RE6zExbWOyX32pDS3T5M2oLUn2Nl/8Ar5qYbNZOtu8g4F7AgQ53VeELcknN4di9qHkgb QY/LM62OrSB4aq7SVtFQYrxOZFbgIUDtRYJRTCq8mxVODvnjAy8aSMKdlY4fawIcAj+3 7dWAWOslzGg5S9zZ+V6E4YKRjd2NyrmWL+hbRaf7ry9MHjOZYXRO8UhPPsd5wFw2+5q+ F5Ew== X-Received: by 10.43.68.206 with SMTP id xz14mr25030949icb.33.1411719756877; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 01:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.107.11.141 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 01:22:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140926090759.7cf050e8@digimed.co.uk> References: <loom.20140925T172011-995@post.gmane.org> <54245C36.50507@gentoo.org> <loom.20140925T205754-368@post.gmane.org> <20140926002320.GB21773@waltdnes.org> <5424DD13.3060208@gmail.com> <20140926090759.7cf050e8@digimed.co.uk> From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= <caneko@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 03:22:16 -0500 Message-ID: <CADPrc80Rbi2JqzsqVP3JR932yWmYjUo3HdnTr4LoFu3_XXWaLw@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 69d04652-d2e1-42b6-a562-f08f8af38b84 X-Archives-Hash: ca725f768f0c6a0e04a875066a425c5e On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > 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. 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. Regards. [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/udev/udev-builtin-= net_id.c#n51 --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico