linux network device ordering annoyances

Aparently the kernel devs are modifying the staticly included driver loading in regards to modules. This gets to be rather frustrating when what used to be eth0 becomes eth2 and suddenly all the settings and scripts are moot.

I should note that this only seems to occur in the 2.6 series. I had never experienced such an issue w/ 1.x or 2.0-2.4. It's rather frustrating. I plan to write to lkml regarding the issue, as it should be fairly simple to come to a standard organization.