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 5838113853A for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7A6521C0C3; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:24:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-f42.google.com (mail-la0-f42.google.com [209.85.215.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF4DB21C0A9 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f42.google.com with SMTP id fe20so3819360lab.15 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:24:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CVIp2rL2dn4z5bBs6v04uA6V0IHrBXqXoZqRxKpJAdg=; b=vqVopodAhPM9cNcRNhs1E5HrkoAfnHIO/Db8LbTCtMwKTZP4K5fWJOvmqPOr+PjD7b TpTolEhbWP2I0y9JWX5It2B5l6mMPcTvV0xW0TvCNs7rAh81aolF3TTGTnOuZgHqcX+p /eTAuo2ovJxGHVjE0UdAGnFHjOfDgjV1J4LjGiF61DQRs+k+Lpx2PB86+AMHk2Z7Y20Z 6vNiP+bgELwZ+u81vkgLStPBDiagMhpeWP/pGKZrOyfpb3HsLCrgL0ydqoZFRsQB2Sd1 YGOcXqnzJBIIGDgG3m52sEJK6gdC1nmP3j2uflquRg0cYdJ14Cltgre2+dl4bCxKtKKM ZUJw== X-Received: by 10.112.49.102 with SMTP id t6mr3598133lbn.60.1358511866026; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:24:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.4.18] (85-18-21-124.ip.fastwebnet.it. [85.18.21.124]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hc20sm1963170lab.11.2013.01.18.04.24.22 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:24:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50F93EEB.4070609@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:24:11 +0100 From: "vivo75@gmail.com" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130112 Thunderbird/17.0.2 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c41b317d-d0fc-48da-899f-64bbf1a2e855 X-Archives-Hash: b8249c48a7786fe56a964d8afefb8572 Il 09/01/2013 23:13, William Hubbs ha scritto: > 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 Since for servers predictable names are useful and for desktop (which usually have only one ethernet that never change) Is it possible to set desktop profiles to still use ethX, and base profile to use new naming scheme? For wireless situation may be different, many of them are external, could wireless be managed differently?