On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote: > > Neither were network device names. But now they are! As long as you > predict to which USB port the dongle will be plugged ;-). >
It would be nice if standards like USB incorporated some kind of GUID. I ended up having to write a udev rule for a pl2303 RS232 adapter to tie it to a specific USB port precisely so that I could have more than one and know which one talked to which device. I'd argue that the udev network interface names were a better (if painful to transition to) solution to a problem created by somebody else. Being able to use wildcards in configuration files is probably an adequate solution for those who are using a single device. -- Rich
