'Twas brillig, and Kay Sievers at 11/04/13 12:51 did gyre and gimble: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Colin Guthrie <gm...@colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > >> Should we then consider trying to push a new default name scheme into >> the kernel side such that they come up as "eth-ng0" etc. by default >> allowing any userspace stuff to rename them to "eth1" or whatever >> without so much likelihood of such conflicts. > > That would be the only manageable option if such rules would be need > to make working. The kernel could have a parameter to reserve eth0-99, > or so and the first interface it creates would be eth100.
Yeah an increased starting index would likely make more sense than a separate naming scheme (and be less "controversial). A compile time option + a command line override would likely cover all bases :) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
