On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 01:24 +0100, David Causse wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:39:50PM +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote:
> > Paul Davis wrote:
> >
> > >Maybe users should use names, but apps shouldn't be doing this. They
> > >would become totally non-portable.
> >
> > Well, I just rolled 2.6.18-rt7 (was on 2.6.15) and the device numbers
> > are completely reshuffled. I would imagine any setup that relies on the
> > device numbers (and not names) would be totally messed up in situations
> > such as these.
>
> IMHO card number should be static and setup by system conf (index=xx
> module option), that sounds much cleaner to me.
How could this possibly be cleaner or simpler than addressing devices by
name like every other OS does?
Lee
Received on Wed Nov 8 12:15:04 2006
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