Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:05:30 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: commit 7e92b4fc34 - x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices - broke my serial console |
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Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > And couldn't we use udev to associate a fixed name with a MAC > address? Then the user could use the same persistent name, > regardless of the order in which the driver found the devices.
I don't know about udev, but people are definitely using fixed names based on MAC address for ethernet devices already: nameif(8) and /etc/mactab, iftab(5) and ifrename(8).
Jeff
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