On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 05:19:48PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > AFAIR I fully agreed on that and then it jumped into my face that the > renaming wasn't necessary at all, because it is sufficient to know the MAC > address and ignore completely the interface name. It is just enough for this > to work that the tools manipulating the network interfaces can be given the > MAC address instead of the interface name. This opens an alternative to > renaming: guaranteed stable interface reference, no race condition and no > need for a new name space.
It would mean changes to every single program that deals with network interfaces. With renaming, you apply this in a single place. Also, compare "wlxf81a671bcfae" with "mac=f8:1a:67:1b:cf:ae" (hint: sed 's/mac=/wlx/;s/://g'). I don't see any advantages for the latter, and nobody in this thread had any kind words for the former. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ Vat kind uf sufficiently advanced technology iz dis!? ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ -- Genghis Ht'rok'din ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
