Bug#824491: udev: impossible to disable predictable network interface names

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 07:21:08PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>   Error: argument "enx001e06303327.20" is wrong: "name" too long
> That sounds like a bug on its own

Yes. Although perhaps it's a kernel limitation?

>>   1. ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules
> Have you rebuilt the initramfs after that change? Does the initramfs
> contain the rules file?

No on both counts.

>>   3. Pass net.ifnames=0 on the kernel command line
> What's your /proc/cmdline in this case?

root at soldroid:~# cat /proc/cmdline                                              
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.6.0-with-cpuidle root=/dev/mapper/odroid-root ro quiet loglevel=4 console=ttySAC2,115200n8 net.ifnames=0   

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