biosdevname hitting rawhide

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:29:32PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Interesting work, Matt. I'm surprised the Unix purists who would fight 
> you to death to keep sendmail on desktops would allow you to change the 
> almighty eth* naming scheme.

Because it's not so almighty. In BSD-land, including Solaris, the devices
are named after the driver, so you get /dev/sis0 and /dev/bge1 and
/dev/e1000g0 and whatnot.

Really, despite your insinuation, the people who urge caution on changes to
the system are generally doing so based on meaningful experience, not
reactionaryism.


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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences