On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:46:29PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Miloslav Trmač (mitr@xxxxxxxx) said: > > >> That's always the hope, and then we meet the cold reality, where someone > > >> just patched 'em1' into everything and hoped that was good enough. But > > >> sure, 'damn the torpedoes' is a viable approach too. I guess I was just > > >> kind of hoping F19 would be a release without yet more churn in the core > > >> system where we could try and stabilize things a bit. > > >> > > > I agree. The scope says no impact, but who knows how many packages depend on > > > hardcoded names. > > > > It's not only "em1" mistakenly hard-coded in applications; it's user's > > saved configuration, scripts etc., where often there is no practical > > alternative to "hard-coding". > > I would assume that it would only be for new installs, not for upgrades. Upgrades will retain biosdevname package, so names shouldn't change. > It might be worth considering that we keep the one special case and > change the 'eno' prefix in udev to 'em'... this will help some. This could be dangerous. If I understand right, there is not guarantee "em1" would become "eno1" in 100% of cases. Iptables saved config would still need to be checked and verified. -- Tomasz Torcz Morality must always be based on practicality. xmpp: zdzichubg@xxxxxxxxx -- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
