The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 08:14:58 EST


Does anyone know if there's a reason that the ethernet driver initialisation
order has changed again in 2.5?

In 2.2.xx, we had eth0 = NE2000, eth1 = Tulip
In 2.4, we have eth0 = Tulip, eth1 = NE2000
And in 2.5, it's back to eth0 = NE2000, eth1 = Tulip

Both interfaces are on the same bus:

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Winbond Electronics Corp W89C940F

Its rather annoying when your dhcpd starts on the wrong interface.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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