(not cced to LKML since not pertaining to kernel)
Alan Cox wrote:
> > Actually, I think Red Hat should fix their network scripts to do this. That is,
> > configure the card based on the MAC address and not the kernel number.
>
> MAC address does not have to be unique per card. On older Sparcs for example
> its unique per host which rather ruins the idea.
>
> Alan
Whoops, late night, didn't necessarily mean by MAC address, but any identifier that
would be unique, or even a combination of identifiers that would be unique.
You could maybe start with the MAC, and then failing that try something like LSPCI:
For instance, from LSPCI I get something like:
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] 83C170QF (rev 06)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass
3] (rev 21)
And for the broken architectures with one MAC per machine and the same type of cards
there has got to be some way to identify different cards.
Unfortunately, this type of system is very architecture dependent, and I don't think
Red Hat wants or needs the added complexity of maintaining a bunch of different
scripts for each architecure.
Still, it would be a nice feature for laptop users.
-Dave
