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On Friday 27 April 2012 02:10 AM, Svante Signell wrote: >> Say you want to mount a network disk during boot. This depend on >> the >>> network being configured. This in turn might depend on a DHCP >>> reply from a DHCP server, and to send the DHCP request the >>> network card need to be detected. To detect the network card, >>> the network driver need to be loaded, and the network card need >>> to be found on the PCI or some other internal bus. And with >>> the Linux kernel today, there is no way to know when during >>> boot the network card will be found on the bus. > This is the whole cause of the problem: You don't know the names of > your devices ay longer. Blame Linus! What's the point of changing > names of peripheral devices "dynamically"? I've been struggling > with eth0 and eth1 for some rime now, never knowing how it will be > named for every new kernel :-( > I think he is talking about when the devices get discovered and in what order. For naming, linux does have ways to guarantee persistent device names, both for block and network devices. - -- Given the large number of mailing lists I follow, I request you to CC me in replies for quicker response -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJPm6dhAAoJEKY6WKPy4XVpJ4gP/28MSVaq/FcxGzYLZG3U3cog RvSIv1RcVQfB0N/HuTKSzP19Y0XTPhq7DxJlFwz0c9MgPaUn+W2YngK05XFCGf/S +zic5zf62pDQymjZ+5M6w+puuzJmbdFYEZdJULBn2e0MzX3b8rZyZulutK5UgMdn n1W51h2Uq6PpYAE4VQ4WqD/Jo+Bbk3D5f8wy7C38yRPEPSaXNW5seLEU8B2xfQGR suShUT+06z/BwYLzImKis+vlj8UWYD08h4mLirQt1722w3OU21EMVGDz7+HXIqxe G4Mggz7wuv7IlxhvxSUitpb3AWHl5Mnnc4vQ+yOKHSHcJsLgOZSfi/ugqHi1YvMm wTUwqnaEdTPq8cSY78zUJsw+JPmDt7NDmwvL0oWDCvNzwQg5MAxFPFIdLBdznnoT Wi6Tvse5NheLFgRxUQj+aCtRYAf4FMY6GtVf46IJaeAyrONYPvV7VRA8JOw82wRw pDirFZjrl/DzXot5LvAbdNpRvOhSFFk6dCoIYVlYvYoBPaNupPC35AvI/waQKseu eobR/fG7PjwsqQlTr2oiXuh8Oj4ideaNGbdvlVFSh2DBGTEqRZ8EQ0Bkk535d3S2 YkOwHm3lmvAaTD+2SP6A2XHmlvliQC1bDrRvNgFFqRtrVJKk1yQOt3Cu2GZltsOr dotNNUSr+OST1sBfAZCW =oGRb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f9ba762.6040...@researchut.com
