[systemd-devel] 70-persistent-net.rules

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Andrey Borzenkov at 11/04/13 10:25 did gyre and gimble:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>> /usr/share/doc/systemd/README.Fedora-18
>>
>> - A hacky workaround that allows udev to rename network interfaces into
>>   kernel's ethX namespace has been re-added. This is to support users who still
>>   rely on udev rules such as 70-persistent-net.rules generated in previous
>>   Fedora releases to name their network interfaces. Note that the workaround is
>>   only temporary and will go away in a future Fedora release
>> ______________________________________
>>
>> PLEASE DO NOT remove this mechanism
>>
>> well, you are not creating it since a long time, BUT do not
>> stop use this config file if it is present!
>>
> 
> Mmm ... if rules file exists in correct directory it of course will be
> used. Or do you mean to not remove auto-generation of this file?

Isn't the mechanism used to shuffle around conflictingly named
interfaces gone from udev these days (it is after all racy and buggy).

If so then things might not work nicely when processing the old rules.
Users should be strongly encouraged to migrate to the persistent network
interface names which avoids the design flaws inherent with the
previously approach.

Col






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