Bug#793374: systemd: Does not honour /etc/systemd/network/*.link

[Josh Triplett]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:07:36 +0200 Julian Wollrath <jwollrath at web.de> wrote:
> I change my network device names via an .link definition in
> /etc/systemd/network/01-ethernet.link with the following content:
>     [Match]
>     MACAddress=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>     OriginalName=eth*
>     Driver=e1000e
> 
>     [Link]
>     Name=eth0

Doesn't systemd (networkd/udev) specifically disallow renaming to eth*,
and force renaming to something that can't conflict with a
kernel-assigned device name instead?  Does this work if you rename to,
say, "foo0"?

- Josh Triplett