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Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename



On Apr 20, Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> wrote:

> I use ifrename to give useful names to interfaces and just because udev
> may be able to do this now as well does not mean they should conflict.
No, ifrename cannot be used with udev because it cannot know that the
name of an interface has changed and will not be able to correctly
deliver the hotplug events.

udev *has always been* able to rename interfaces, BTW.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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