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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 12.05.16 12:34, Chris Friesen (cbf123 at mail.usask.ca) wrote:

> I booted the kernel with "net.ifnames=0", which worked to turn off the
> location-based naming.
> 
> I then created a set of files, one per eth device that match based on MAC:
> 
> [root at compute-0 root]# cat /etc/systemd/network/10-eth
> 10-eth0.link  10-eth1.link  10-eth2.link  10-eth3.link
> 
> 
> Here's an example of one of the files:
> 
> [root at compute-0 wrsroot]# cat /etc/systemd/network/10-eth0.link
> [Match]
> MACAddress=08:00:27:f1:36:11
> 
> [Link]
> Name=eth0

"eth*" is the kernel's namespace for ethernet devices. Stepping into
that namespace, and racing against the kernel's name assignment logic
is something you can only lose at.

Pick any other name, but assigning names in the kernel's own
namespace, that's not really supported.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat