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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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[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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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon) |
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