Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/25/2013 12:17 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 23:03 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>
>>> It's best to rip the bandage of this in one release.
>>>
>>> The churn from this should have been more or less covered when we
>>> implement biosdevname so the fallout from this change should be minimal
>>> if any...
>>
>>
>> I see the 's' word in there ;)
>>
>> That's always the hope, and then we meet the cold reality, where someone
>> just patched 'em1' into everything and hoped that was good enough. But
>> sure, 'damn the torpedoes' is a viable approach too. I guess I was just
>> kind of hoping F19 would be a release without yet more churn in the core
>> system where we could try and stabilize things a bit.
>>
> I agree. The scope says no impact, but who knows how many packages depend on
> hardcoded names.

It's not only "em1" mistakenly hard-coded in applications; it's user's
saved configuration, scripts etc., where often there is no practical
alternative to "hard-coding".
    Mirek