Biosdevname in Ubuntu Server 12.10 (and 12.04.2)

[Tim Gardner]

On 05/23/2012 09:27 AM, Jose_De_La_Rosa at Dell.com wrote:
> Tim,
> 
> It's been a while, hope all is well. I talked to Amit Bhutani earlier
> this week and he briefed me on the conversations he had with you
> couple weeks ago at UDS regarding enabling biosdevname
> (http://linux.dell.com/biosdevname/) by default on Dell hardware
> (targeted for Ubuntu Server 12.10 and 12.04.2).
> 
> Here are the items that Amit mentioned you needed to get us going:
> 
> 1. Launchpad bug:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/biosdevname/+bug/891258
> 
> 2. Mailing list threads:
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-January/034687.html
>
> 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2012-January/006063.html
> 
> Colin Watson started the thread with an initial message to both
> ubuntu-devel and ubuntu-server. However, the conversations forked and
> most of the conversation took place in ubuntu-devel:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-February/.
> 
> 3. Launchpad bugs that we've worked on for tools that have the
> network controller name (i.e. eth0) hard-coded or are related to
> biosdevname. Jared Dominguez (cc'ed) has submitted and worked these,
> so ping him for any specific questions.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/962587
>
> 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/powernap/+bug/961364
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/vlan/+bug/948559 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifenslave-2.6/+bug/948538 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/net-tools/+bug/962616 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/962546
> 
> 
> Thanks Tim, let us know where we go from here.
> 
> Jose De la Rosa Linux Engineering Dell | Enterprise Product Group
> 

Jose - good thing you pinged me. Otherwise I'd have forgotten 'cause it
wasn't a blueprint task with my name on it. I'll dig into this...

Cc'd the kernel-team list

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com