Release Notes for buster: 70-persistent-net-rules still supported?

[Michael Biebl]

Am 03.07.19 um 16:12 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 03.07.19 um 15:50 schrieb andreimpopescu at gmail.com:
>> Please kindly confirm this Release Notes entry is needed/correct/etc.
>> https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#migrate-interface-names
>>
>> #919390 appears to contradict /usr/share/doc/udev/README.Debian.gz.
> 
> In short: yes please keep this section in the release notes.
> We still ship
> https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/blob/master/debian/patches/debian/Revert-udev-network-device-renaming-immediately-give.patch
> in buster, which sort of makes 70-persistent-net.rules work most of the
> time.
> This patch is a horrible hack though and has already been removed in the
> experimental branch which will be buster+1
> https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/commit/3d45a7af959cf260bffcb1ad0262973b5750ae36
> 
> We want people to switch to the new naming scheme for two reasons:
> 1/ It makes buster backports of newer systemd versions possible
> 2/ People are already prepared when they upgrade to buster+1. Say the
> buster+1 kernel fails, they can still boot with the buster kernel+initramfs.
> 
> 
> I can go into more detail but hope that clarifies the situation.

Hm, reading the release notes again, there should be a big fat warning
when using net.ifnames=0 (there is also a typo, note the missing 's').

It does not enforce the old naming scheme, it simply means use the
kernel provided names. This is only advisable if you ever have a single
interface. If you have multiple interfaces it is possible that the names
change as the kernel probes devices asynchronously nowadays.




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