Consistent device naming

[CLOSE Dave]

On 05/13/2014 06:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> To exchange names, you need to use a temporary name and do three
> renames. Pretty much like swapping to values using a temporary
> variable.

I can't find a way to do that with udev. Please enlighten me.

> Another thing to consider is do you really need to reference the
> interface names? If you use dhcp and NetworkManager, you might be
> able to avoid that.

Yes, I need to reference the names. "ip route" needs them.

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Near as I can find online, there is no solution to this issue. According 
to <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56929#c3>,

 > We do no longer support renaming network interfaces in the kernel
 > namespace. Interface names are required to use custom names that
 > can never clash with the kernel created ones.

 > We do not support swapping names; we cannot win any race against
 > the kernel creating new interfaces at the same time.

The system is broken by design.
-- 
Dave Close