On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 06:20:18PM +0100, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote: > >> We do have the persistent-ipoib udev rule but it'd probably if they had a name "matching" the IB device by default so in most use case people > >> do not have to set these rules manually and never have to look which netdev matches which IB device. > >> If we go with my #2 point, we could add a setting to enable/disable this feature. And make sure that the persistent rule is triggered afterwards so legacy name are not overwritten. > > It won't be overwritten if I rename 99-persistent-rdma ... to be 70-persistent-rdma ... > > Couldn't there be an issue if the rule is triggered before the > rdma-hw-modules.rules ? I think this is a good worry, things like rdma-umad.rules have a problem with rename in general as they incorporate the name into systemd stuff.. I'm not sure at all what happens here with rename. Jason
