From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 13:16:43 +0000 Subject: Re: Bug#627931: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules not Message-Id: <20110526131643.GA8724@bongo.bofh.it> List-Id: References: <20110525180115.GA15695@bongo.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: <20110525180115.GA15695@bongo.bofh.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On May 25, Kay Sievers 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. -- ciao, Marco