Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jan 29 17:25:10 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 06:20:20PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> 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".

Right; people who just converted all of their stuff to use this will now
have to go through and do it again. This does not make happy users and
should be avoided when possible; that's why I advocated for keeping the
naming scheme the same.

But, if there are really technical advantages to the new approach, hey,
we're Fedora.


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