I've sort of sat back on this, as Its not something affecting me a lot, Bit it looks like an issue I have seen a variant of, that might be relevant here Back in the CL 2.5 days we had a detection script that caused similar problems with ALSA. we managed to stop it by turning off the "Plug and Play OS" mode of the BIOS. When the Motherboard assigns fixed devices, the OS seemed to loose the detection issues. In the plug and play mode the race condition seemed to be able to occur. (and the cards were a BT787 video capture card and a sound card), with both swapping the role of sound card. Has anyone changed the bios setting and seen if this make a difference ? If so ignore me, otherwise it might be a workaround. On 2/08/2006, at 12:29 PM, Daniel Lawson wrote:
I think it needs to store device names because deterministic breaks potentially if you add a new device which is detected earlier in the boot sequence and renames old device.
My opinion is that it should probe for existing devices and if they exist give them the same name as previous boot and then look for new devices.