Control: tag -1 upstream wontfix On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 15:07 +0200, Stefan K wrote: > Dear Maintainer, > > I recently upgraded from 4.9 to the 4.19 backport kernel. I thought that > we've predictable network interface names[1], but we don't. > > With kernel 4.9 my network device is eno113, if I use kernel 4.19 its > eno113np0. The OS is running on a Dell PowerEdge R840. [...] These names are generated by systemd-udevd, although they are based on information from the kernel. Looking at the system-udevd source code, it appears that the extra "np0" is derived from a new "phys_port_name" attribute of the network device, which the bnxt_en driver added support for in Linux 4.14. It looks like this is required for switchdev functionality, so I don't think this change is going to be reverted. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody.
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