Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

[Bill Nottingham]

Miloslav Trmač (mitr at volny.cz) said: 
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> > = Features/SystemdPredictableNetworkInterfaceNames =
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemdPredictableNetworkInterfaceNames
> >
> > Feature owner(s):  Kay Sievers <kay at redhat dot com>
> >
> > The udevd service has a long history of providing predicatable names for block
> > devices and others. For Fedora 19 we'd like to provide the same for network
> > interfaces, following a similar naming scheme, but only as fallback if not
> > other solution such as biosdevname is installed or the administrator manually
> > defined network interface names via udev rules or the old network scripts.
> 
> 71-biosdevname.rules only handles KERNEL=="eth*"; so am I correct that
> it doesn't affect "wlan*" names at all?
> 
> If "wlan*" is not controlled by biosdevname, what happens to them in
> this proposal in the default installation?  Will they remain unchanged
> because biosdevname is installed, or will they be changed because
> biosdevname doesn't assign them a name?

The latter.

Bill