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Re: ordering calls to driver's ::start() routine?

Subject: Re: ordering calls to driver's ::start() routine?
From: Allan Nathanson <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 21:12:16 -0500

On Monday, February 4, 2002, at 08:33 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:

For networking devices, this is done by the IPConfiguration plugin for configd. This code names keeps track (in the SystemConfiguration database, /var/db/SystemConfiguration/preferences.xml) of known devices and tries to assign a name to a device based on a known property. It always names the 'built-in ethernet' as "en0"; and tries to name Airport as "en1" (this fails if you change the card, currently). For others, it relies on the MAC address as the 'discriminator'.

Actually, it is the InterfaceNamer plugin that tries to maintain the mapping between the network devices and their associated names.

- Allan

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