Hi Theo, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> This appears to be a fairly simple change. Does it sound reasonable to >> people with more knowledge of OpenBSD networking? > > No, it is not reasonble. You are inventing problems at a very high > level just because some very low level pci-related bug is making some > of your devices not reliably show themselves. >
Surely you are very close to the details of OpenBSD kernel development, but maybe it is more helpful to keep a little bit of distance. I see a system that introduces names for some of its parts on its own, using some internal rules that I cannot influence. These names are not well-defined. Surely they are not supposed to change over time, but on certain events they can. Some of these events I cannot influence, either. The problem is, that I am forced to reference these names in the configuration files for a highly important part of the system, where a change of these names could be fatal. Surely I am not asking to drop the traditional naming scheme immediately, and replace it by something else. All I am asking for is to think about it, how this could be improved. Many thanx Harri
