Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 05:53 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
[...]
> It will be even worse when not even ID_NET_NAME_PATH is defined (e.g. on 
> my Allwinner-based ARM computer), which means that interfaces will get 
> a mac-based name like enx028909xxxxxx.
[...]

For ARM (and any other architecture using Device Tree) the on-board
indices should be specified as aliases 'ethernet0', 'ethernet1', etc.
The aliases will be listed in the uevent as OF_ALIAS_0 (or OF_ALIAS_1,
etc., as a device can have multiple aliases).

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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