Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:59:10PM -0800, Christopher Head wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:13:10 -0600
> William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames
> 
> This seems like a good thing for some systems. Will there be a news
> item when 197 (or greater) goes stable informing people that the option
> is available and if they want to use it they can do so? In my (ordinary
> user) opinion, there should be.

There will definitely be a newsitem before this hits stable.

Once we figure out what the migration will involve and if there are any
bugs we need to worry about, I want to discuss making this the default
setup before we go stable.

There is a way for users to opt out if we default this to on, but I
think the new naming scheme has advantages over the traditional eth*
wlan* etc names.

I did the migration myself on my box this afternoon in just a minute or
two; it wasn't painful at all.

William


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