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 C8D6E1384B1 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:35:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC9EC21C060; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:34:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9ECE921C038 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:34:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.138] (CPE002401f30b73-CM001cea3ddad8.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.224.26.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: axs) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 997A333D884 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:34:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <50F55B0D.6040702@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:35:09 -0500 From: Ian Stakenvicius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.11) Gecko/20121208 Thunderbird/10.0.11 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] Re: Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names References: <20130109221310.GA1749@linux1> <20130109145910.09fda2de@ritchie.cs.ubc.ca> <20130110001321.GA1971@linux1> <20130109164607.17fffc26@ritchie.cs.ubc.ca> <20130112021143.GA4547@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> <20130112180312.GA19930@linux1> <20130114060401.GA1422@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> <20130114190643.GA17645@linux1> <20130115002501.3147.qmail@stuge.se> <20130115024827.GA1716@linux1> In-Reply-To: <20130115024827.GA1716@linux1> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ed3409cc-f64d-4262-96b3-883dfe250a1a X-Archives-Hash: 8fbced09a572d34d08106816cb766104 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 14/01/13 09:48 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 01:25:01AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: >> William Hubbs wrote: >>> I have a bug opened with the docs team and release engineering >>> to discuss whether we want the new names for new installs. >> >> IMO yes we do. >> >> What's that bug - or what is the good way to thumbs up/down? > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451950 > > The focus of this bug really is how to document the new names in > the handbook if they decide to go that way. The problem we will > have is we don't know the names of the interfaces a user will see. > That's easy enough to deal with -- list a code block that says what command to use to find out the iface names, and show an example of the output. For that matter, if udev-197 goes stable it'll be included on the livecd, right? So a user's interface on the livecd will already be set to the new naming scheme. ***OH***, that'll mean the livecd's config (or at least the openrc oldnet portion) is going to need some work.... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlD1Ww0ACgkQ2ugaI38ACPB/sAEAlr+wzX5X7jEsY2KkbC9hylu7 IAIyoZkbtl0A5Z+68A8BALXbRZyv+PZg1eqmWr0DNXfmdwVidOq0RISOxBt0sK7W =mTAM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----