On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:04:47 +0300, Samuli Suominen (ssuomi...@gentoo.org) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?" (in <54252c2f.1030...@gentoo.org>):
[snip] > Later kernels *can mark interfaces predictable in a new form of > metadata*, and udev >= 209 can > pick that information up, and then it won't do anykind of userspace > renaming on it, since kernel > has declared the interface name to be steady...predictable...always > same, so I hope > we are moving towards kernel assigning predictable names for all drivers > and we can get rid of > the userspace renaming of interfaces all together I hope these kernel-assigned interface names are configurable, as I have been naming the interfaces on my machines with *mnemonic* names for many years now. [These are names like "inet" and "lan" for interfaces that connect the machine to the Internet or my LAN.] I certainly do not want to go back to "eth0" and the like -- or worse still, udev's "predictable" names -- as these are not mnemonic in any way. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
