[gentoo-dev] Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

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*...

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