[systemd-devel] networkd-218 seems to ignore .link files

[Jan Engelhardt]

In systemd-218, I have configured the following testcase:

/etc/systemd/network# ls -al
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 11 18:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 11 16:23 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   96 Jan 11 18:14 99a-ether.link
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  241 Jan 11 18:12 brd0.network
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   56 Jan 11 18:12 brg0.netdev

# cat 99a-ether.link 
[Match]
MACAddress=08:00:27:0a:c5:b2

[Link]
Description=ethernet_link
Alias=ether0
Name=ether0

# systemctl status -l systemd-networkd
● systemd-networkd.service - Network Service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-networkd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2015-01-11 18:14:59 EST; 39s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-networkd.service(8)
 Main PID: 417 (systemd-network)
   Status: "Processing requests..."
   CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-networkd.service
           └─417 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-networkd

Jan 11 18:14:59 jng-sfac systemd-networkd[417]: brg0            : netdev ready
Jan 11 18:14:59 jng-sfac systemd[1]: Started Network Service.


Why would it be ignoring the link definition file for ether0?
If I invoke `rmmod e1000; modprobe e1000`, systemctl status has
one extra line to say:

Jan 11 18:17:52 jng-sfac systemd-networkd[417]: eth0            : renamed to enp0s3


The L2 address is certainly correct:

2: enp0s3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group 
default qlen 1000
    link/ether 08:00:27:0a:c5:b2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff