The Simple Things in Life

[Xen]

Ralf Mardorf schreef op 21-07-2016 11:57:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 03:00:47 +0000, Xen wrote:
>> I still don't like seeing this enp4s0 (under the previous motherboard
>> it was enp3s0, go figure) whenever I look under the hood and detest it
>> to the bone.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this number already changes for my mobo's only network device, if I
> remove or add PCI sound cards. I solved it by using a wild card.
> 
> $ grep -A2 "dhcpcd_on()" /usr/local/sbin/alice-dhcp
> dhcpcd_on() {
>   echo ; dhcpcd $(basename $(ls -d /sys/class/net/enp?s0)) ; echo
> }

I've also used that strategy somewhere; to just list all devices and 
take the head -1 of that.

Coincidentally, that is like the exact equivalent of what I was 
proposing, or what I proposed.

This "ls /sys/class/net/enp?s0 | sort" (as a manner of speaking) 
produces that condensed list I was talking about. You merely need to 
replace each item on the list with ethX where X is the sequence number 
in the list (index, order) and you've got the scheme I wanted.

You can't change installed PCI devices on the fly (hopefully, although 
they mentioned Thunderbolt which would complicate things) (but I think 
Thunderbolt is on a different naming scheme?) so this order and this 
list should always stay fixed during the operation of the machine.

But then Martin Pitt would know (probably ;-)) he or she is just not 
telling us ;-).

At least the systemd-devel discussion was not any form of vileness, it 
was a serious debate in that sense with disregard of some people that 
tried to turn it into dogfighting, but those were not named person and 
unnamed kernel developer, which were rather respectful both and good 
partners in any sense in a debate at all.

So thank you Martin Pitt for your cooperation there but I just did not 
like what the kernel dev was doing which was throwing up roadblocks 
which have no real merit in reality and I am just a 1000% sure of that.

I am a designer and developer myself. I know when something is bullshit 
okay.

You can smell it from a mile away if you have designed enough software 
already.