❦ 10 juillet 2017 09:38 -0400, Marvin Renich <m...@renich.org> :

> The cost of a state file (/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules) is
> extremely small, even in the very worst case where a user continually
> plugs in many, many different usb network dongles, which is a very
> unrealistic case to begin with.

The state file solution was not perfect either. If you have two brands
of NIC (Intel 10G additional NIC and Broadcom 1G integrated NIC for
example), it was not uncommon to be left with an interface eth0_rename
after boot because the target name was used by the other driver.
-- 
Each module should do one thing well.
            - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)

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