Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:28:59AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> That inventing your own numbering is a problem manifests itself in bugs
> like this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782145#c21

Okay, I can see that. Still, I wish there were a greater attempt to maintain
similar naming where possible. This sort of churn is expensive.


> Well, the page says "high-level UIs". The GNOME3 UI certainly doesn't
> expose the interface name anywhere, does it?

It does if you click around enough. And I haven't tried Gnome 3 on a system
with multiple ethernet cards, but I would hope that _somewhere_ it would
tell me which was which.

> But I guess we simply have a different definition of a user here. Your
> definition is probably closer to what the page calls "admins", which is
> covered by the next lines in the feature page, which you didn't paste:

Right. For Fedora, developers and admins are an important subset of users.


> "As biosdevname is installed by default ...  most administrators won't
> see this either. "

If the new scheme really is better, we should suck it up and make the whole
change. It'd be better to do what we can to make that transition easier --
like using similar names were possible -- than to have a weird mixed state.

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