Handling of renamed interfaces

[Beniamino Galvani]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 02:48:08PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> On 2024-01-04 09:12:38, Beniamino Galvani wrote:
> > 
> > It doesn't have to predict the future. udev first optionally renames
> > the interface, and then always emits the event. NetworkManager waits
> > for the event before managing the interface. When the device
> > transitions from "unmanaged" to "unavailable", it means that NM
> > started managing it.
> > 
> 
> AFAIU network interfaces are renamed even before udev or NM have been
> started, while the initrd is still running:

udev also runs in initrd. The renaming of interfaces according to
whathever rule is configured in the system (e.g. predictable interface
naming) is done by udev.

Beniamino
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