[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

["Jörg Schaible" <joerg.schaible@gmx.de>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:38:28 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
>> > Have you read the news item?
>> 
>> Yes.  I found it rather confusing.
>> 
>> It refers to a "new format" for rules, but the examples use the exact
>> same format as the old rules.
> 
> Poor choice of terminology there, the format is the same only the chosen
> namespace is different.
> 
>> It talks about how 80-net-name-slot.rules needs to be either an empty
>> file or a synmlink to /dev/null if you want to disable the new naming
>> scheme -- but that doesn't seem to be right.  After the upgrade my
>> 80-net-name-slot.rules file was neither an empty file nor a symlink to
>> /dev/null, but I'm still getting the same old names.
> 
> Do you have a 70-persistent-net.rules file? That would override to give
> the old names, which is why the news item tells you to change it
>
> "If the system still has old network interface renaming rules in
> /etc/udev/rules.d, like 70-persistent-net.rules, those will need
> to be either modified or removed."

I don't have any rules except the 80-* one installed by new udev and I still 
have the old names - and this has been the case now for 3 machines and I 
upgrade a 4th right now.

>> > It explains why the file should be renamed and also why you should
>> > change the names in the rules to not use ethN.
>> 
>> The only explanation I found was "the old way is now deprecated".
> 
> My bad, I thought that was covered in the news item, but it is left to
> one of the linked pages to explain it.

- Jörg