On Friday 08/22 at 07:23 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:23:20 -0700 Calvin Owens wrote: > > > > If you actually have data on that, obviously that's different. But it > > > > sounds like you're guessing just like I am. > > > > > > I could only guess about other OS Vendors, one could check it also > > > for Ubuntu in their public git, but I don't think we need more data, as > > > ultimate judge here are Stable Maintainers > > > > Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, it's udev after all that decides to > > read the thing in /sys and name the interfaces differently because it's > > there... > > Yeah, that's my feeling. Ideally there should be a systemd-networkd > setting that let's user opt out of adding the phys_port_name on > interfaces. 99% of users will not benefit from these, new drivers or > old. We're kinda making everyone suffer for the 1% :(
Thanks Jakub. I let myself get too worked up about this, I apologize for being such a pig in this thread. My frustration is not directed at anybody here, I hope it hasn't come across that way.
