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

[Chris Friesen]

On 05/13/2016 01:23 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 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.

Okay, fair enough.

Since I still need to do this for now, I changed the kernel to start naming at 
eth1000 so I could then rename it back down to the desired range.

Chris