Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:56:17 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: eth0/1 swapped places after kernel Upgrade 3.0.8 -> 3.1.0 (and udev 172 -> 174) |
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On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:40:15 +0000 Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 10:14:04AM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: > > Not sure if this is a udev or kernel issue, or indeed whether I > > should expect these devices to have persistent naming at all > > without some udev configuration of my own, but I thought I'd > > report it just in case it's useful. > > > > Output from lspci: > > > > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) > > 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) > > > > It's worse than I thought; eth0/eth1 are randomly swapping places on boot. > Is this likely to be a kernel or udev problem?
The kernel probes them in whatever order it walks the PCI bus. What udev does afterwards is a distro question.
Does the order of the two probe reports every change or just the final udev result - ie are they always found mac xx:xx:03 then xx:xx:05 ?
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