From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262992AbTDVOJe (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:09:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263139AbTDVOJe (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:09:34 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:34989 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262992AbTDVOJd (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:09:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:20:23 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: boot messages Message-Id: <20030422072023.5fa430b6.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030422130135.GA16465@gtf.org> References: <20030422130135.GA16465@gtf.org> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:01:36 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: | > A separate discussion: | > Ethernet cards are numbered differently by different kernels. | > A bit annoying, and I have tried to fix this a few times, | > but probably one just should accept it. | > The previous time this came up people answered and said: | > use "nameif". | | Two points here: | | 1) official answer is, "if you want stable ethernet interface naming, | use nameif" I did a short writeup about this. See http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/network-interface-names.txt | 2) I have been told more than once that ethernet device allocation order | changed between 2.4 and 2.5. I consider this a bug, and welcome patches | to fix it. Note, though, that the recent PCI probe order fixes that | went in via Andrew Morton may have addressed this issue for some people. Patch has already been posted 2 times. -- ~Randy