On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 05:14:44PM -0800, Siwei Liu wrote:
> Sorry for replying to this ancient thread. There was some remaining
> issue that I don't think the initial net_failover patch got addressed
> cleanly, see:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1815268
>
> The renaming of 'eth0' to 'ens4' fails because the udev userspace was
> not specifically writtten for such kernel automatic enslavement.
> Specifically, if it is a bond or team, the slave would typically get
> renamed *before* virtual device gets created, that's what udev can
> control (without getting netdev opened early by the other part of
> kernel) and other userspace components for e.g. initramfs,
> init-scripts can coordinate well in between. The in-kernel
> auto-enslavement of net_failover breaks this userspace convention,
> which don't provides a solution if user care about consistent naming
> on the slave netdevs specifically.
>
> Previously this issue had been specifically called out when IFF_HIDDEN
> and the 1-netdev was proposed, but no one gives out a solution to this
> problem ever since. Please share your mind how to proceed and solve
> this userspace issue if netdev does not welcome a 1-netdev model.
Above says:
there's no motivation in the systemd/udevd community at
this point to refactor the rename logic and make it work well with
3-netdev.
What would the fix be? Skip slave devices?
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