On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 12:07:23 -0700 Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 12:06:40PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > Which is true for every device, and why we use UUIDs or label for > > > mounts that are supposed to be stable. > > > > Not everyone is smart enough to do that. > > Sure. But they should not get a way out for just one specific driver. There are people running new kernels on 6 year old distributions. Was every distribution smart enough then? If you think so, then this not necessary.