Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:35:39PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 26, John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
> 
> > I think that the right thing to do is to assign the persistent names to
> > network devices that still exist in the system, but to do nothing with
> > any other network devices.  That will allow systems to still boot and
> > come up properly in the face of network hardware changes.
> Think harder about it and you will understand why this cannot be tested
> in practice.

Cannot be *tested*?

This seems to me to be the right compromise.