Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

[Bjørn Mork]

Martin Pitt <mpitt at debian.org> writes:

>  - [ifnames] For about two years (since 197) upstream's udev has a
>    builtin persistant name generator which checks firmware/BIOS
>    provided index numbers or slot names (like biosdevname), falls back
>    to slot names (PCI numbers,

Note that this makes the same bogus assumption about stable kernel
names, just in a different subsystem. PCI buses can be and are
hotplugged, similar to network devices.  PCI bus numbering is no more
guaranteed than say ethX network device numbering for any bus
number > 0.

But if will appear to produce stable names most of the time, of
course. Just like your builtin ethernet interface will be eth0 most of
the time.

Just a heads up for the first bug report...



Bjørn