On 3/24/2013 8:55 AM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
On 03/24/2013 09:03 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
However bugs about interface naming should also go to /dev/null in the "disabled" case. :P
This is the kind of attitude that makes people go look for another distro, IMHO.
Sorry, I overlooked your smiley ... need glasses.
Im actually serious, if
- a solution is provided but requires you to let udev rename interfaces.
- then bugs about the old "unpredictable interface names " should be marked as WONTFIX.
- People not liking the solution is not the fault of the solution really.
Cristian - Speaking from the perspective of someone who has to manage and upgrade openSuSE systems, it seems to me that this transition to a new device naming scheme is pretty significant and being handled in a somewhat roughshod fashion. I suspect there are a lot of services, applications and tools which are very dependent on the device interface name and any sort of a change is very likely to break many of them. Case in point is this removal of the persistence mechanism for giving/maintaining device names to NICs. In openSuSE 12.3, it's sudden disappearance broke YaST and my ability to use it to set up a gateway system. Such changes should be more orderly, done gradually over a couple of releases, defaulting at first to the continued usage of the old (even if buggy) method(s). At first simply issue a warning message to mark that the old approach as being deprecated. Even better is to pass along with this warning, information on how to move to the new mechanism(s) so that it can be tested and time given to the developers of all those other applications, services etc., to adapt to the new change(s). And then finally switching to the new method as the default. IMHO this transition is being done too rapidly, especially considering the significance of its impact, and not enough time being given to work out the kinks that are likely to occur... Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org