On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 10:58 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 10:08 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > Right, which is why NM doesn't use device names, since those change > > with plug/unplug too. > > We have scripts in udev to avoid that, and give persistent naming of > devices. Those scripts are based on _more_ than just the MAC address, > which isn't sufficient on its own. And when new strange hardware > configurations come up, people add support for that to the standard udev > scripts. > > Surely people should be augmenting those existing scripts if they have > to deal with any other devices, and NetworkManager should be able to > make use of the persistent device names provided by udev? > > Is NetworkManager really just using the MAC address rather than relying > on what udev provides?
NM currently relies on the HAL UDI to uniquely identify a device, not the device name. The udev persistent device names would work better, but TBH we've only had those for what, 6 - 8 months? I'm pretty sure that ex udev-124 doesn't have everything we need, yet that's what Fedora ships in F-9. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
