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Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15Posted Jan 28, 2011 17:34 UTC (Fri) by jmm82 (guest, #59425)In reply to: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15 by nix Parent article: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15
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Thank you for the clarification. That makes perfectly good sense. I guess I still feel that this could have been done more cleanly. Relaying on the network device name for bus location seems like a conflict of interests. I just hope people don't start depending on the names not changing.
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Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15 Posted Jan 30, 2011 16:59 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Agreed. It feels like a horrible and gratuitously nonportable layering violation to use PCI bus IDs for anything related to networking... I suppose in this case they *want* ambiguity, so that they'll get the same name on *every* machine with a card plugged into the same slot. Seems really risky to me, but, hell, I'm not the target market.
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