[systemd-devel] Unmentioned 209 change: 80-net-name-slot.rules is gone

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek at 21/02/14 13:58 did
gyre and gimble:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 02:24:58PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> This commit caught me by surprise:
>>>    http://git.zx2c4.com/systemd/commit/?id=daeb71a36a98834664e4d95773a3629b746f4db8
>>>
>>> It wasn't in the NEWS or the mailing list post for 209, so when
>>> updating I encountered a bit of unexpected behavior. I see that I can
>>> disable persistent names using net.ifnames=0 in my kernel command
>>> line. Still not certain what the equivalent of the udev rule override
>>> is, though.
>>
>> Yeah, that should have been in the NEWS. Sorry about that.
>>
>> This is what we do in Arch to preserve the behavior form v208:
>> <https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/systemd.install?h=packages/systemd#n65>.
> It should still be added... Lots of people look at NEWS in the web git
> interface, or long after the release.

I updated the wiki page:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames

Col



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