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On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:59:10PM -0800, Christopher Head wrote: |
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> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:13:10 -0600 |
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> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames |
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> This seems like a good thing for some systems. Will there be a news |
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> item when 197 (or greater) goes stable informing people that the option |
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> is available and if they want to use it they can do so? In my (ordinary |
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> user) opinion, there should be. |
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There will definitely be a newsitem before this hits stable. |
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Once we figure out what the migration will involve and if there are any |
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bugs we need to worry about, I want to discuss making this the default |
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setup before we go stable. |
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There is a way for users to opt out if we default this to on, but I |
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think the new naming scheme has advantages over the traditional eth* |
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wlan* etc names. |
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I did the migration myself on my box this afternoon in just a minute or |
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two; it wasn't painful at all. |
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William |
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