Comment # 57 on bug 960669 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Jiri Bohac from comment #56)
> Whatever you guys do, just don't think of putting the 70-p file into initrd.
> The problemes described in bsc#886669 are really severe and it cannot be
> fixed in a sane way. We spent weeks on that when developing SLE12.
> 
> You should not be needing networking inside initramfs at all

That's what triggered the bug.

, except for
> diskless clients. I don't think we have any way to set up these using our
> installer or YaST, so it's up to the administrator to make such a config
> work manually, right?

YaST can do that, iSCSI and NFS.

> Then the administratos should not have a problem with either 
> setting up the persistent names himself (e.g. he knows that the client will
> only ever have one network interface, he can create an udev rule that will
> rename any interface to eth0).
> Or he should be able to use the systemd-provided predictable names.
> Or he can use 
> Or he can use the ifname= command line argument.
> 
> In all other situations, please try to to prevent dracut from doing anything
> to the network - it will make our lives much simpler! :)

Yeah, it really is a mess :-/