Re: Question to new network device names

[Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Hi all, 

with great interest I read all your discusssions. They were very interesting 
and I got a lot of informations. Thanks for it!

I still wondered, if the new naming scheme is more usable for unexperienced 
users, say, someone with a notebook and often changing devices, like usb-
drives, usb-sticks, wlan-sticks, gsm-sticks, mice, keyboard and so on.

I am not sure, the kernel will recognize them after a lot of use during a 
longer time. 

The other thing, I thought of: If the kernel decides, which one is the first 
network card, and which is the second, maybe this is not the line I want it, 
maybe I want it in another line, say: first ethernet is onboard, second the 1GB 
pci-card, third the pci-wireless card, fourth the usb-gsm-card.

But as I understood, the kernel telles, which one is the number 1, 2, 3 and so 
on.

I am looking at the view of an ordinary user. A user, who wants to make 
backups on an external drive, using unison or back-in-time. For me it is 
simple, to manually mount the drive with the correct folder, an unexprienced 
user expects the extrnal hard drive to be automaticlly mounted to the required 
folder - regardless which of his 5 hard-drives he chooses.

IMO, although I believe to understand the thoughts of the new scheme, I also 
believe, there are still lots of trouble following.

Last but not least, it looks like most livefile systems (i.e. kali linux) seem 
still use the old style. Maybe it is because on rescue systems people are more 
comfortable with it.

Have a nice weekend!

Best regards

Hans