On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog <umut.tezdu...@axis.com> wrote: > Hi Tom, > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Tom Gundersen [mailto:t...@jklm.no] >> Sent: den 15 januari 2014 14:23 >> To: Umut Tezduyar Lindskog >> Cc: systemd Mailing List; Umut Tezduyar Lindskog >> Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] udev: ifname matches given mac >> >> Hi Umut, >> >> I'm not really convinced about this. I think we should be fairly conservative >> about what names we consider persistent. >> >> The way NamePolicy=mac currently works is that it will base the name on the >> hardware mac address (i.e., not randomly generated by the kernel, set by >> userspace etc), and only do that if we deem it to be sane. > > My thought was as a user, NamePolicy=mac meant that whatever the end mac > address is going to be will form the basis for my interface name. With this > thought, I realized my interface name was not same as my mac address since I > set the mac address from userspace. I thought this is a bug but I also see > your point of view which is NamePolicy=mac means hardware's mac address as > also stated in the man page.
By the way, I'd be happy to take suggestions on how the man page could be made clearer. Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
