-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/09/2013 04:13 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > as you probably know by now, udev-197 has hit the tree. > > This new version implements a new feature called predictable > network interface names [1], which I have currently turned off for > live systems, because it will require migration on the part of the > user. > > When you upgrade to this new version of udev, you will find a file > /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules on your system. It > currently has comments explaining what is happening. > > As long as this file is in place, this feature is not activated. > That is why there is not a news item. If you do nothing, nothing > changes. > > What I would like to do is find some people who are willing to > migrate and report any issues they find. > > I would like this to be the default for everyone at some point, so > I want to document the migration process and find out if there are > any bugs in tools because they expect the eth* names. > > Thoughts? > > William > > [1] > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames > > So long as users retain the choice of keeping eth* or wlan*, no complaints from me. I (and others) came to Gentoo to get away from systemd, and this smells of a systemd-ism. Will eudev be pursuing this as well? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/
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