On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:19:17PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>It's like you haven't even read this thread.
of course I have
>Predictable interface names *do* sometimes change. And when that happens,
>it's a huge deal, because all of the configuration files are set up for
>the old name. Things break, in an extremely visible way.
And they also broke before the predictable name scheme! And they can
break if you lock names to MAC addresses! There are always ways things
can break. If they break in an extremely visible way that's actually a
good thing--the impact of simple interface reordering can be much more
severe. And when they do break, the fix is generally pretty
straightforward (that is, not such a big deal as to justify the bytes
wasted complaining about it).
>This is not some theoretical issue. This is real.
It's also real that for the majority of systems it works fine. Why are
you so invested in denying that reality?
Because some of us work in corporate data centers. And everything you claim that helps us here really does the opposite. Because it was introduced in large part to support mobile computing. Which does not and will never be valuable on the back-end, the server end, where commerce occurs.
It's what we call a different "use-case".