biosdevname hitting rawhide

[Fabian Deutsch]

Good day,

Am Dienstag, den 30.11.2010, 13:04 -0600 schrieb Matt Domsch:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:48:05PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > On 11/29/2010 08:27 PM, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:17:22AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > >> I've just pushed biosdevname-0.3.1 into rawhide.  This is not yet
> > >> installed by default as part of @base, nor is it used by anaconda, but
> > >> those changes will come over the next few days.
> > > I've pushed the comps change to pull biosdevname into @base by
> > > default.  And I've posted a patch to anaconda-devel-list to pull
> > > biosdevname into the installtime environment.  Cross your fingers,
> > > this is gonna be great!
> > 
> > Can you expand the release notes section of
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming
> > 
> > Please include the benefits in that.
> 
> Done.

I was curious and ran
$ sudo biosdevname -i wlan0
em1

Does that mean that my wlan0 device would be named em1 when installing -
lets say - F15?
If so, this change would affect many users I suppose.

Could you clarify what hardware is affected and what devices will get
different names?

- fabian