> I understand the 'legacy' concern but at the same time we don't want to > have aftificial limitations too. Name change, in particular, doesn't > happen 'under the hood' -- someone privileged enough needs to request > the change. > > Can you think of any particular real world scenarios which are broken by > the change?
How about: man 8 dhclient-script The interface name is passed in $interface to the scripts. Do we get the old name or the new name? I suspect scripts are going to break if they are given the old name, which no longer exists. Andrew