On 18-02-2015 19:23, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Well, if you have networking up so early that's usually because you > need it to boot, for example because it is the backing device for the > root file system. In such a case it would be a really bad idea to take > the network interface down.
This is the most common usage for early networking, yes. But there are many others, as my hooks demonstrate. > > I think generally the deal is pretty OK and kinda expected: if you > want early networking, then you have to stick with the name you choose > that early. > > I figure if you want control over naming of the interfaces, the right > option would be to include the .link file for it in the initrd image, > so that it is applied that early. I don't want any control over the naming of the interfaces. The current system is ok, in my opinion. I just think, given an option, udev could rename all interfaces regardless of their status. I already handle this in the initramfs, but I wanted to check if there was a way for udev to change their names. I now know that it doesn't and there isn't much appeal for introducing this functionality in it. Sorry for the noise and if I stepped on anyone's toes. Cheers, Giancarlo Razzolini _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel