Greg KH schreef op 11-04-16 22:19: >> My device is enp3s0, which implies 3rd bus number, which it indeed is: >> >> E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:03:00.0 >> >> Are you telling me there are systems where this is not guaranteed to be >> stable? > > Yes, including your own.
So biosdev is not guaranteed to be stable either. > >> Maybe these two numbers are coincidentally the same and not >> related. It's an onboard chip (as most) and so not really geograpically >> located. > > Put a new PCI device in your system, or boot it in a docking station, or > plug in some thunderbolt devices before booting and then look at this > number. This is my system: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GT 640] (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1) 02:00.0 Parallel controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd Device c100 02:00.1 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd Device c101 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) 04:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/CMI8768 PCI Audio (rev 10) 04:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 01, 02 and 04 are physical cards. In this list, only 03 is not physical. It seems obvious that this would change if I changed anything, but. Well that makes writing configuration files based on it troublesome to begin with. For instance this might mean that if I remove the com/lpt card, my ethernet interface name will change (it might change from enp3s0 to enp2s0). I have no thunderbolt/docking station here, but that would be even worse. I thought you people said the current system would be very stable. > But, it's the best that the system can do, as obviously your bios does > not provide a slot name for the PCI device, otherwise the naming scheme > would have picked that. Name or number? I only see a provision for slot numbers. If indeed adding devices would change all of this then there is no reason at all to stick with the current naming scheme over something a little simpler. > Go file a bug for your laptop manufacturer to properly provide the > needed PCI slot number, and then your id will not change. Actually it is a regular motherboard but I will put this to the test. >> In all of the examples though, this is not a coincidence and these >> numbers are identical. This PCI path is used for the biosdev name. >> >> You are saying it is not stable? > > Yes, see above. So there goes all that effort...... > The naming scheme starts with the most stable thing it can find and > works downward. PCI ids are usually "good enough" for almost everyone, > like you are seeing on your system. But they do change, which is why > most sane BIOSes provide PCI slot information, as those correspond > directly to the hardware location in the system. If the ethernet name does change if I take out a non-related card, it is much worse than in the old system. I will check, thanks. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel