On 2013-01-10, Daniel Campbell wrote: > 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?
This sounds like an udev feature, completely unrelated to systemd. It's a bit hard for me to understand why do you even relate this to systemd, when udev has done this kind of device name management for *ages*. I mean, I think udev has been bundled with *persistent* rules for some months now... Playing with NIC device names is not something exclusive to udev, it has always been fun with wireless drivers who roam between eth*, wlan*, ath*... -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
