Bug#356329: kernel: device names are non-deterministic
Package: kernel
Severity: important
Whenever I boot my machine, the device names are assigned
non-deterministically. There is only one disk (SATA), which is
sometimes called /dev/sda and is sometimes called /dev/sdc. There is a
built-in USB card-reader that also uses sd* names, but there are never
cards plugged in when I boot. I've seen this phenomenon only with
2.6.15. With 2.6.12, the disk is always /dev/sda.
There are two ethernet ports and one firewire port. Sometimes the
ethernets are eth0 and eth1, and the firewire is eth2; sometimes the
firewire is eth0 and the ethernets are eth1 and eth2. I've definitely
seen this phenomenon on 2.6.15, and I think also on 2.6.12.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (700, 'oldstable'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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