On Aug 14, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > Yes, because the upstream maintainers decided that the current scheme > > cannot work and will remove support for it. > > I do not know how long it will be feasible to keep it as a Debian patch. > It works today for many users. I don't see why it would stop working > for them. This was my objection as well, but it was not well received.
> > > This is implemented in the biosdevname package, which I think we should > > I never bothered packaging it because AFAIK it is not needed with recent > > kernels (and recent hardware?). > The kernel will continue to generate names using the formats eth%d, > wlan%d etc. There needs some userland program to generate the new > device names, whether it's in the udev package or another package. Yes, with appropriate rules udev should be able to rename the interfaces without biosdevname. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110815000938.ga22...@bongo.bofh.it
