On 2013-03-31, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30/03/13 17:15, Tanstaafl wrote: >> Ok, just read the new news item and the linked udev-guide wiki page > > You should probably also read: > > http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2013/03/predictably-non-persistent-names > > and: > > > http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2013/03/predictable-persistently-non-mnemonic-names
The feeling that I got while reading the first was exactly what the second talks about. We - from what I understand - had scripts automatically generating the name rules from MAC addresses, it's just that they generated stuff like ethX. Can't we just keep these scripts around (even if this was something provided by upstream and we would have to forge a new incarnation)? I mean, IMHO, net0, wl0, ... are much easier to deal with and understand than something physically-based. They also avoid problems caused by moving these cards around, or changes in the kernel drivers or BIOS, or BIOS settings that eventually end up exposing cards in a different way. The problem with the old approach was *just* the name clash that rendered the hacky approach unreliable. Maybe we could just fix the issue by using non-clashing namespaces, instead of pushing a completely different (and possibly less reliable) naming scheme by default. -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
