Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

[Bill Nottingham]

Miloslav Trmač (mitr at volny.cz) said: 
> >> 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".

I would assume that it would only be for new installs, not for upgrades.

It might be worth considering that we keep the one special case and
change the 'eno' prefix in udev to 'em'... this will help some.

Bill