Dave Jones (davej(a)redhat.com) said:
> > I think Bill said it kept reordering network devices.
Missing symlinks and
> > such.
>
> That kernel option should have nothing to do with network devices for
> the 2.6.19 kernel release, so I would be very supprised if it changed
> anything.
For the kernel in question, this was 2.6.20rc5.
(I don't think the option even existed back in .19 ?)
The code that we have that writes the initial network configuration
that maps mac addresses <-> device names (so that we handle modules
loaded in arbitrary order) associates network devices with physical
devices by following net:XXXX symlinks in /sys/bus/pci/devices/XXX,
/sys/bus/pcmcia/devices/XXXX, /sys/bus/xen/devices/XXX, etc.
The new code (that removes those links) breaks this hard, and
rearchitecting everything to have a second pass that walks /sys/class/net/XXX
links and associates them with already probed/discovered devices
is not something I'm doing at this stage of the freeze.
Bill