Subject: Re: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:14:48 -0700

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:02:14PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > this is convienient for some things, but not for others.
> > 
> > what's unique and reproducable is the discovery order
> 
> Not in the case of things like USB...

Or even PCI.

/me pats his laptop that reassigns PCI device ids randomly every 3rd or so boot.