Bug#939178: release-notes: Describe name selection rules in the "Migrating from legacy network interface names" section
Package: release-notes
Severity: important
The 5.1.5 section of the document[1] contains the following text:
[1]https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#migrate-interface-names
"(If the udevadm output includes an “onboard” name, that takes priority;
MAC-based names are normally treated as a fallback, but may be needed
for USB network hardware.)"
This text should be changed to something like this:
udevadm may list several potential names for a single interface. In this
case the final name is assigned according to the following list of
decreasing priorities:
* ID_NET_NAME_FROM_DATABASE
* ID_NET_NAME_ONBOARD
* ID_NET_NAME_SLOT
* ID_NET_NAME_PATH
* ID_NET_NAME_MAC
(MAC-based names are normally used only for USB network hardware.)
It is important to make the right choice when migrating interface names
on a remote system!
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...Bye..Dmitry.
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