Bug#809339: systemd: Ignores previously supported & documented method of disabling PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames

[Martin Pitt]

Hey Brian,

Brian Potkin [2016-01-05 18:54 +0000]:
> The advice to use "update-initramfs -u" is aimed completely at the
> symlink failure.
> 
> But consider this rule in /etc/udev/rules.d:
> 
>   SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR(address)=="00:40:f6:77:3d:e1", NAME="eth-xxx"
> 
> The user will have "eth-xxx" as the interface name.
> 
> A short time later there is a kernel update.

This should trigger an initramfs update.

> At some time after that the user user deletes the file containing the
> rule and reboots without doing "update-initramfs -u". The interface is
> still named "eth-xxx".

I added this to the README now:

  http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=52a7387b9

Martin
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