On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 20:01, Marco d'Itri <md@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anybody have an opinion about this? Let people who rely on persistent names edit the rules file by hand. By manually/from-system-management -tools editing the rules file in /etc. The /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules will stay for people to configure their names, but they should *not* use ethX. The temporary rename loop to swap names will likely be removed from udev. We are going to drop the entire "magically create a rules file /etc to keep names stable"-logic later this year, I expect. We can not rename network devices in the kernel namespace (ethX) reliably. It's impossible to get right to rename in a conflicting namespace while kernel modules are loaded. The whole thing does not scale with a lot of interfaces or on boxes with many changes. The rules file just gets full of garbage over time. We have problems with read-only rootfs and stateless boots. The few people who rely on stable interface names, need to *configure* them anyway for other reasons, assign IP addressen and such. Udev should not try to be smart in the background and write state to disk on its own. In the future, udev will not do anything for any unconfigured interface, not rename it, not write out a rule for the next reboot. The majority of systems does not need these stable names, and the current *magic* creates far too many problems. The deal does not seem right and the fix it not to do it. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
