Grant Grundler wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:19:25PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >>> I thought parallel PCI and SCSI probing on system with multiple NICs and >>> "SCSI" storage requires udev to create devices with consistent naming. >> For some reason people get upset when we rename all their devices. They're >> a humourless lot. > > Hey! I resemble that remark! ;) > > (yeah, I've been a victim of that problem way too many times.) I hear network interfaces can be selected by their MACs, which are globally unique and persistent. Most SCSI hardware has globally unique and persistent unit properties too, and udev indeed uses them these days. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- =-=- ===-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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