What determines the order of ethernet devices?

[Carl D. Roth]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:17:42 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:

>> AFAICS the order in which kudzu scanned the PCI bus dictates the order
>> of ethernet devices in ifcfg-ethX.
> 
> In this case kudzu must scan the PCI bus in a strange order,
> as the card which was given the eth0 slot appears as 00.09.0 on the bus
> (according to lspci) while the card given the eth1 slot
> appears as 00.07.0.

I can't speak to FC6, but in previous versions of FC and RHEL, the device
probe was influenced (in kudzu) by an dictionary sort of the NIC driver
names.

Carl