On 04/01/2017 01:45 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>>> * udev: Create persistent net names for virtio CCW devices.
>>> This only affects s390x as only this has CCW devices. This provides
>>> stable network interface names for those and avoids changing the names
>>> on updating Stretch to Buster. (Closes: #856559)
>>
>> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?h=stretch=bb9ad652f309a90a5424381503083ee9a530a888
>>
>> (might be relevant for the installer)
>>
>> This only affects s390x, so regression potential is low and it's
>> important to get into stretch, otherwise we'd have migration issues in
>> buster (as names would change, which would be ugly)
>
> Adding debian-s390@lists.debian.org to the loop to make sure they're
> aware of this. Can't really judge whether this could be annoying in d-i,
> it seems to me that's just fixing a move which hadn't happened with the
> net.ifnames transition, for specific hardware?
FWIW, I have tested this on an installation and haven't seen any problems.
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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