>On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 18:56:25 +0000
>Simon Hobson <linux@???> wrote:
>
>> Florian Zieboll via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>>
>> > For the sake of completeness and y'all's convenience, here a link
>> > to the related info in the Debianwiki:
>> >
>> > https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames
>>
>> Did anyone else read that and think it could be summarised along the
>> lines of : "We thought X was badly broken, so we developed Y which
>> will require you to reconfigure lots of stuff - but even we have to
>> admit that Y is actually more broken and here's the complicated ways
>> to get sane behaviour"
>>
>> Simon
>>
>
>I wonder why instead of predictable names they didn't choose
>prefix+mac_address at least for initial setup of names and leave it
>to user to name the interfaces they way he likes.

Because Freedesktop.Org.


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