On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:17:03AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 04:23:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 01:50:19AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > 2) At UDS, consider defaulting to biosdevname=1 for 12.10. Presumably > > > by that point we would have reasonably substantial experience with > > > it as a result of 1). > > > biosdevname is now enabled by default on 12.10 alternate/server > > installs. This will cause some machines to use different (and more > > stable across reboots) network interface names. > > Thanks, Colin! > > Are we expecting this to be enabled for the desktop image as well, for > consistency?
I'm not sure about this, and would welcome thoughts. On the one hand, consistency is valuable. On the other hand, I would expect the benefit on typical desktop systems to be much less, and the change undeniably has a cost; it's not clear to me that the trade-off makes sense on the desktop. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel