Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

[Lee]

And if it's confusing for the 'bit jockeys' on this mailing list what do
you think will be the effect on the casual user?

This could have been handled better, imho. What happened to that
documentation mojo Gentoo is known for? The post-install notes
are a real head scratcher.
On Apr 3, 2013 9:40 AM, "Grant Edwards" <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 2013-04-03, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
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> > Have you read the news item?
>
> Yes.  I found it rather confusing.
>
> It refers to a "new format" for rules, but the examples use the exact
> same format as the old rules.
>
> It talks about how 80-net-name-slot.rules needs to be either an empty
> file or a synmlink to /dev/null if you want to disable the new naming
> scheme -- but that doesn't seem to be right.  After the upgrade my
> 80-net-name-slot.rules file was neither an empty file nor a symlink to
> /dev/null, but I'm still getting the same old names.
>
> > It explains why the file should be renamed and also why you should
> > change the names in the rules to not use ethN.
>
> The only explanation I found was "the old way is now deprecated".
>
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