On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Oliver Endriss <o.endr...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> I believe your assumption is incorrect.  I believe the enumeration
>> order is not deterministic even for multiple instances of the same
>> driver.  It is not uncommon to hear mythtv users complain that "I have
>> two PVR-150 cards installed in my PC and the order sometimes get
>> reversed on reboot".
>
> Afaik the indeterministic behaviour is caused by udev, not by the
> kernel. We never had these problems before udev was introduced.

I suppose it's possible that udev does not process the events in the
order in which they are received.  Admittedly I have not done any real
analysis as to how that part of the kernel works.

Devin

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