[systemd-devel] Utility for persistent alternative driver binding

[Charles (Chas) Williams]

On Tue, 2015-12-08 at 11:34 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Hmm, got a pointer? I dont think PCI slots change between reboots 
> without physically swapping hardware, the "ethX-problem" comes from the 
> order of device discovery being unstable across boots, which is a 
> different issue and not relevant for this case.

With virtual machines the ordering of PCI devices isn't always the same.
This is especially true with OpenStack which regenerates the
configurations on the fly.  The only thing that seems to be consistent
is the MAC address.