From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7DE21383B5 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:22:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A78D21C05F; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.18]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A5D21C03C for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:21:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com ([10.1.101.211]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx002) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LcEEV-1TAVVQ3vaX-00jVeF for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:21:49 +0100 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2013 04:21:49 -0000 Received: from 103.70-40-225.netnet.net (EHLO [192.168.1.144]) [70.40.225.103] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu011) with SMTP; 10 Jan 2013 05:21:49 +0100 X-Authenticated: #128128167 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/AOBQ3IAXAgABJRr0PjaTnAbJj3NbYZ35wVF/nri V6Kra/MBQxrqHm Message-ID: <50EE41DB.8050403@gmx.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:21:47 -0600 From: Daniel Campbell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names References: <20130109221310.GA1749@linux1> In-Reply-To: <20130109221310.GA1749@linux1> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 75177099-e2f0-410b-8c9d-8c7cfc7d49b6 X-Archives-Hash: 66e9f8214e0a4b4efe8519304f200fef -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/09/2013 04:13 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > as you probably know by now, udev-197 has hit the tree. > > This new version implements a new feature called predictable > network interface names [1], which I have currently turned off for > live systems, because it will require migration on the part of the > user. > > When you upgrade to this new version of udev, you will find a file > /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules on your system. It > currently has comments explaining what is happening. > > As long as this file is in place, this feature is not activated. > That is why there is not a news item. If you do nothing, nothing > changes. > > What I would like to do is find some people who are willing to > migrate and report any issues they find. > > I would like this to be the default for everyone at some point, so > I want to document the migration process and find out if there are > any bugs in tools because they expect the eth* names. > > Thoughts? > > William > > [1] > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames > > So long as users retain the choice of keeping eth* or wlan*, no complaints from me. I (and others) came to Gentoo to get away from systemd, and this smells of a systemd-ism. Will eudev be pursuing this as well? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ7kHbAAoJEJUrb08JgYgHJ20H/20G6Pkq+hIB1546UKR/Kti+ VmxaFdi5msWjtor6xzzBaVsaWjdpHHHH1ovCHqL1EeuIDg6JUIpeQ2HiAlj9OqaP 9Kg1xATiTw8TKOiGF4r6J1ysfDgFI/K/5CCsMr1Eea6+8m6EUI+yOR5K5xSXZbkR 9Pti3JIrE6t3EkY1EdWguPOGRiiSshjbessNbIzWe/SM/92aDbylQp0ut4DjXn7F XZyPQ+mCzU2tNWVq8HYuqg6xoO1izk6huYWc9jjxwGXfdewxPN6ebng7uDRhIQSK QR5dSLpoLEkrC5aZqmtuz2v5zqxgJWz30uNZl6JG8dCrdAntB9JmYwFTVkpekHY= =6v04 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----