Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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Am Sonntag, 31. März 2013, 03:17:52 schrieb Samuli Suominen:
> Nothing is stopping you from leaving out the symlink either and
> migrating to the new name despite using only 1 network card either,
> it's still more reliable than the kernel names

Why should I?

Kernel behaviour is traditionally way more stable than udev behaviour. If my 
driver for my only one network card has always produced eth0 as device name, 
chances are good it will do so still in a few years, after re-shuffling the 
cards in my casing, and even after exchanging the whole motherboard.

Whereas with udev I can probably expect random things at random times for each 
of these events.

Also, should I have problems with a new kernel, I can always just boot back 
into an old one without much ado.

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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/


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