Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of network interfaces

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 09:52:00PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> I'll let the platform maintainers decide what's the least
> intrusive/problematic option. Both solutions have drawbacks, so it's
> really a "political" decision to make here.

I think the main valid argument for a revert is that it violates the
documented dtb ordering rule.  It also fails to actually do what it was
intended to do since network device probing order really isn't defined
in linux and if you care you should fix it in userspace.  Fixing a
regression would be a side effect, and since the ordering isn't certain
anyhow, anyone that did see a regression was doing it "wrong" already,
although also anyone that saw a benefit from the change was also doing it
"wrong".

> Not only async probing, but also PCIe devices, as you mentioned
> earlier :-)

Yeah they better come up with a safer way to determine which network
device is which from user space.

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Len Sorensen