On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 04:27:53PM +0300, Kevin Wilson wrote: > I recently moved form Fedora to Ubuntu and I have found many advantages. > However, I wonder about one question: > In fedora, for some years now, the device name scheme was changed. > For example, for network devices, > instead of using eth0, eth1, etc there is > em1, em2 for embedded device (built in on the board) > and p1p1,p2p1, ... for PCI devices which are on the PCI slot. > > It is due to a package name biosdevname developed by Dell > http://linux.dell.com/biosdevname/ > > also RHE adpoted it. > > My question is: I found this new scheme very comfortable. > Is there a reason that Ubuntu does not use it ? Does Ubuntu intend to > adopt it?
We enabled this by default on new server installations since Ubuntu 12.10. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-August/035670.html -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
