Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

[David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com>]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:04:47 +0300, Samuli Suominen
(ssuominen@gentoo.org) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable)
alternatives ?" (in <54252C2F.1030901@gentoo.org>):

[snip]
> Later kernels *can mark interfaces predictable in a new form of
> metadata*, and udev >= 209 can
> pick that information up, and then it won't do anykind of userspace
> renaming on it, since kernel
> has declared the interface name to be steady...predictable...always
> same, so I hope
> we are moving towards kernel assigning predictable names for all drivers
> and we can get rid of
> the userspace renaming of interfaces all together

I hope these kernel-assigned interface names are configurable, as I have
been naming the interfaces on my machines with *mnemonic* names for many
years now. [These are names like "inet" and "lan" for interfaces that
connect the machine to the Internet or my LAN.]  I certainly do not want
to go back to "eth0" and the like -- or worse still, udev's
"predictable" names -- as these are not mnemonic in any way.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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dwnoon@ntlworld.com (David W Noon)
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