On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 09:49:21AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Nov 04, Narendra_K@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
> > ATTR{smbios_name}=="Embedded_NIC_1", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
> > NAME="eth0".
> As a distribution developer I highly value solutions like this which do
> not require patching every application which deals with interface names
> and then teaching users about aliases which only work in some places and
> are unknown to the kernel.
Fair enough - but would you object if we changed the naming scheme
from eth%d to something else?
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