On 03/22/2010 04:55 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: > > I don't see a problem for udev to distinguish the cards. It can do it merely > on > the bus-ID. That's unique. Yeah, it might change if you change the hardware. > But do we care? I say no, because you cannot actually change the hardware in > real life > for any of these devices. And even if you could reorder the devices on the > bus or whatever. > What would happen? The card would get a new MAC address. That's all. That's > acceptable. > > The kernel would (for example) just set the mac address to all-ones. Udev > would > notice this (invalid) mac address and reassign a new persistent one to the > device. It then > stores the address on the harddisk.
What ensures that this persistent name would be unique? > In fact, if we implement a mechanism in the kernel, we have _exactly_ the > same problem. > However, currently Larry's patches just ignore that problem and assume that > there's only > one card in the system anyway. As I said in a posting a few minutes ago, that problem is solved. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
