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Author: Ivan J.
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To: devuan developers internal list
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] eudev net.ifnames logic reversing proposal
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017, fsmithred wrote:

> On 08/20/2017 09:01 AM, Ivan J. wrote:
>
> > This would lead network interface names default to the old "eth0" or
> > "wlan0" scheme, rather than the new(?) "enp0s3"-like scheme. It implies
> > having "net.ifnames=1" in the kernel cmdline to get the "enp0s3"-like
> > scheme and not touching anything to get the "eth0" scheme.
> >
> > If there are no objections until wednesday, I'd push this trivial, but
> > important to discuss patch to the package and build it for the
> > repositories. Please see the patch below:
> >
>
> Yes!
>
> It would be good to have some kind of warning to the user upon
> installation, in case they are using the new interface names.


I haven't played around with package warning popups yet. If you know of
a way, I'll gladly implement it :)

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