Problem with udev and ethX naming in latest Fedora 19.

[Reindl Harald]

Am 15.08.2013 16:53, schrieb Ben Greear:
> On 08/15/2013 07:18 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 15.08.2013 16:05, schrieb Ben Greear:
>>>> with 4 NIC's this was never predictable and mostly luck
>>>> the only stupid thing is that this this new crap names also appear
>>>> if there is only one NIC or at least only identical ones with
>>>> the same driver what makes race-conditions unlikely
>>>
>>> I understand why the names come up jumbled on bootup, but there is no excuse
>>> for udev not being able to properly rename them as requested
>>
>> ask Kay Sievers , he is able to explain it to you too
>>
>> in short:
>> the kernel may also rename the devices as they come up
>> if kernel want make one nic to eth1 and udev at the same time another one -> collision
> 
> That's fine.  Udev can just detect the collision and try again, potentially
> moving the other one to a new name.  That is what it has done for years,
> in between bugs that caused eth0.rename devices to be left lying around.

well complain at the udev/systemd-guys and the ones before who came up with "biosdevname"
you know that, i know that, you asked, i gave you an answer
more can hardly do a *user* in this case

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