Re: Bug#627931: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules not

[md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)]

On May 25, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:

> 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.
Can you tell me more about this? Because it worked well enough for the
last last 5 years.

> 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.
True, but these are corner cases.

> Only one thing seems sure for now, that udev must stop renaming things
> in the kernel namespace. The details for the rest we will need to find
> out. :)
Maybe you can get away with removing features, but I need to support the
ones used by my users so I am strongly opposed to removing this code
until other software will support all current use cases.
As you showed, distributions which do not feel like supporting it can
just disable it.

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ciao,
Marco