Author: Hendrik Boom Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] What does Linus do?
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 12:05:56AM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote: >
> This idea does has some merit, but it cannot always prevent the necessity
> to reconfigure a system's networking due to a hardware change and to a
> sysadmin's specific needs; sometimes a cars with NIC 0b:45:81:f4:3e:01 is to
> be en1, sometimes a never-before-seen card needs to be given the same name.
> How is the system supposed to know? It cannot, the sysadmin will still need
> to adjust thing by hand according to what it's needed in the specific
> circumstances. I'd like a system that was as simple as possible to configure
> and maintain that made this renaming as straightforward as possible, not as
> complicated ad udev rules are.
Do I understand you ccorrectly: that the udev rules are flexible
enough to do the right thing, but they are too hard to use?