* Re: [eudev] Plans to adopt persistent network device naming?
@ 2013-01-10 13:29 99% ` Anthony G. Basile
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From: Anthony G. Basile @ 2013-01-10 13:29 UTC (permalink / raw
To: eudev
On 01/10/2013 12:08 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
> udev recently hit v197, and with it a system that changes the way
> network devices are detected and assigned symlinks. Instead of eth0,
> eth1, etc. and wlan0, wlan1, etc, it uses strange names for devices. [1]
>
> As a user who switched to Gentoo to avoid the systemd cancer, I'm
> concerned about what eudev's position is on this change. Is it a change
> that will be pursued, a mere opt-in option, or will this not ever appear?
>
> Personally I see little reason to adopt this. It'd be best to not have
> it at all, but if it's going to be in eudev, it'd probably be best to
> make it opt-in instead of udev's opt-out.
>
> So what's the verdict?
>
> [1]:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames
>
We have not discussed this as a team, but I'm going to venture a guess
given our general outlook. We will support both schemes and probably go
with the conservative must-opt-in approach. I have yet to see what
implementation details are needed for the predictable network interface
name. Its possible that the opt-in/opt-out question may not even be
relevant if we can autodetect a system configured for one approach over
another.
I'm all for new features that may be useful, but not at the expense of
forcing users to needlessly reconfigure systems.
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