Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
but again it appears that simple cases are being made complex, just to allow for someone else's complex cases. Which is faulty logic. It's a welcome option but an important question seems to be; Why wasn't this picked up in the dev cycle?. This reminds me of udisks 8 months ago losing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-12 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 02:11:43AM +, Steven J. Long wrote: Christopher Head wrote: William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: There is a way for users to opt out if we default this to on, but I think the new naming scheme has advantages over the traditional eth* wlan* etc names.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-12 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Steven J. Long sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Christopher Head wrote: William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: There is a way for users to opt out if we default this to on, but I think the new naming scheme has advantages over the traditional eth*

[gentoo-dev] Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-11 Thread Steven J. Long
Christopher Head wrote: William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: There is a way for users to opt out if we default this to on, but I think the new naming scheme has advantages over the traditional eth* wlan* etc names. I think it should be taken with a grain of salt. The page mentions

[gentoo-dev] Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-10 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-10, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 01/09/2013 04:13 PM, William Hubbs wrote: All, as you probably know by now, udev-197 has hit the tree. This new version implements a new feature called predictable network interface names [1], which I have currently turned off for live systems,