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On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 03:22:16 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> > That may be true for PCI devices but not for USB ones. If you unplug a |
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> > USB device and plug it back into the same port, it will get a |
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> > different device number. The naming is more predictable, but it's not |
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> > there yet. |
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> That doesn't sound right. If unplugging a USB net device and plugging |
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> it again *in the same port* results in a different device *name*, then |
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> it is a bug and should be reported; the description of the algorithm |
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> in [1] sounds like it should get always the same name for the same |
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> port, unless I'm misunderstanding something. |
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It certainly was the case. I couldn't test it directly because this |
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laptop doesn't have support for such devices, but plugging, unplugging |
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and replugging a USB ethernet adaptor resulted in a change of device |
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number. I just switched to a different machine and it does indeed give the |
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same name now, so things have been fixed and the interface names are now |
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predictable. |
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Ugly as hell, hard to remember, but they are predictable. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. |
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