Re: systemd .service file conversion
Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> 013/5/30 Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>:
> > On May 30, Mathieu Parent <math.parent@gmail.com> wrote:
> >[···]
> >> > There is also the "kill features Red Hat does not care about" deal,
> >> Do you have an example?
> > Persistent naming of network interfaces.
> ... is entirely optional, and can be disabled if someone doesn't want
> it - but I can't see what is bad about it...
> Also, rationale and introduction to this feature is nicely documented:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
> Or do you mean something else?
I think Marco meant udev dropping support for the older variant of
"persistent" names, the one the article you linked to refers at 'For a
longer time udev shipped support for assigning permanent "ethX" names to
certain interfaces based on their MAC addresses.'.
As described in the article, there certainly were reasons other than
"Red Hat does not care about it" to drop this feature. Whether it would
have been preferable to keep optional support somewhat longer for
backwards compatibility is another question.
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