On Monday 02 January 2006 14.48, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:29:16PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote:
> > I'd call that broken, just as I consider udev (076) to be broken given
> > that it breaks expectations wrt device naming. (Here, it swapped the
> > names of the DVD drives (drivers are built-in) and sound devices
> > (drivers are modular).)
>
> But that was the case since ages for SCSI (and nowadays SATA) devices.
> No modules, no udev, just plug a new SATA/SCSI disk to the controller
...
'just plug' is the watchword. New device model just needs a reboot - in
some circumstances device numbering is random without hardware changes and
without software changes.
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