Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

That isn't really a kernel issue, or anything deep. You can make more symbolic links, named as you please, with appropriate rules in the hal configuration files. In fact, names like you suggest would be a great addition, maybe /dev/disk/by-bus/pci/* and /dev/disk/by-bus/usb/* and such. Not sure if they'd see much use by scripts or automatic mechanisms, but they would certainly be useful to ls -lR and see what's what.