Re: udev event completion order

[Andrew Vaughan <ajv-lists@netspace.net.au>]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:29, Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Alexander E. Patrakov may or may not have written...
>
> > Kay Sievers wrote:
> >> There is also the plan to do parallel device probing inside the kernel
> >> some day, that will make the situation of relying on kernel names even
> >> more fragile.
> >
> > Right, this means that the way of passing "root=/dev/hdc2" will no
> > longer work because /dev/hdc will sometimes become /dev/hde.
>
That will also break scripts/apps that manipulate disks/partitions.

This could easily result in some-one restoring a backup over the wrong disk. 

Andrew