[systemd-devel] when/where was support for assigning "ethX" names removed?

[Chris Friesen]

On 05/12/2016 11:35 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 12.05.2016 um 19:20 schrieb Chris Friesen:
>> Could someone point me to the commit that removed support for assigning
>> "ethX" names based on MAC addresses?
>>
>> Alternately, can someone suggest a way to get equivalent behaviour (the
>> ability to set "ethX" names based on MAC address) using the current
>> infrastructure? (Preferably as of RHEL 7, so systemd 219 plus a bunch of
>> patches.)
>
> it was not removed - boot with "net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"
>
> just use network.service on RHEL7 as all the time before and enter the MAC in
> the ifcfg-file as all the time before

On 
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ 
it says:

"For a longer time udev shipped support for assigning permanent "ethX" names to 
certain interfaces based on their MAC addresses.  This turned out to have a 
multitude of problems.....As a result support for this has been removed from 
systemd/udev a while back."

If that is not accurate then maybe it should be updated.

Chris