On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 11:21 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:49:03AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt was heard to > remark: > > > > Of course, we'll possibly end up with a different ethX or whatever, but > > Yep, but that's not an issue, since all the various device-naming > schemes are supposed to be fixing this. Its a distinct problem; > it needs to be solved even across cold-boots.
Ok, so what is the problem then ? Why do we have to wait at all ? Why not just unplug/replug right away ? > (Didn't I ever tell you about the day I added a new disk controller to > my system, and /dev/hda became /dev/hde and thus /home was mounted on > /usr and /var as /etc and all hell broke loose? Owww, device naming > is a serious issue for home users and even more so for enterprise-class > users). > > --linas > - 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/
