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On 26/09/14 19:47, David W Noon wrote: |
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> On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:04:47 +0300, Samuli Suominen |
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> (ssuominen@g.o) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) |
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> alternatives ?" (in <54252C2F.1030901@g.o>): |
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> |
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> [snip] |
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>> Later kernels *can mark interfaces predictable in a new form of |
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>> metadata*, and udev >= 209 can |
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>> pick that information up, and then it won't do anykind of userspace |
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>> renaming on it, since kernel |
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>> has declared the interface name to be steady...predictable...always |
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>> same, so I hope |
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>> we are moving towards kernel assigning predictable names for all drivers |
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>> and we can get rid of |
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>> the userspace renaming of interfaces all together |
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> I hope these kernel-assigned interface names are configurable, as I have |
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> been naming the interfaces on my machines with *mnemonic* names for many |
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> years now. [These are names like "inet" and "lan" for interfaces that |
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> connect the machine to the Internet or my LAN.] I certainly do not want |
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> to go back to "eth0" and the like -- or worse still, udev's |
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> "predictable" names -- as these are not mnemonic in any way. |
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Later kernel marks some drivers interface names "predictable" or |
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"stable", not sure which word is best to use here, and then udev |
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won't rename it by default to anything. The kernel assigned name |
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could be anything, and I doubt it's in the eth* namespace |
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And they can still be renamed by custom rules, that won't change, |
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it's just that they won't get renamed by *default* anymore |
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