Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> but > again it appears that simple cases are being made complex, just to allow > for someone else's complex cases. Which is faulty logic. It's a welcome option but an important question seems to be; Why wasn't this picked up in the dev cycle?. This reminds me of udisks 8 months ago losing feat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-12 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Steven J. Long wrote: > Christopher Head wrote: >> William Hubbs wrote: >> >> > There is a way for users to opt out if we default this to on, but I >> > think the new naming scheme has advantages over the traditional eth* >> > wlan* etc names. >> >> I think it sho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-12 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 02:11:43AM +, Steven J. Long wrote: > Christopher Head wrote: > > William Hubbs wrote: > > > > > There is a way for users to opt out if we default this to on, but I > > > think the new naming scheme has advantages over the traditional eth* > > > wlan* etc names. > > >

[gentoo-dev] Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-11 Thread Steven J. Long
Christopher Head wrote: > William Hubbs wrote: > > > There is a way for users to opt out if we default this to on, but I > > think the new naming scheme has advantages over the traditional eth* > > wlan* etc names. > > I think it should be taken with a grain of salt. The page mentions how > it l

[gentoo-dev] Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-10 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-10, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 01/09/2013 04:13 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> All, >> >> as you probably know by now, udev-197 has hit the tree. >> >> This new version implements a new feature called predictable >> network interface names [1], which I have currently turned off for >> l