Using biosdevname by default?

Robbie Williamson robbie at ubuntu.com
Mon Feb 6 15:44:51 UTC 2012


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On 02/05/2012 06:16 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> On 02/05/2012 07:03 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
>> On 01/31/2012 06:57 AM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
>>> I personally find this change risky for 12.04, I agree the 
>>> hardcoded use of eth* and similar are hacks that we should get 
>>> rid of, but I doubt we have the resources or time to check and 
>>> fix the whole archive in time for 12.04.
> 
> 
>> If I'm reading Dell's email right, it seems like they've 
>> volunteered to help fix the archive in this regard :)
> 
>> Thanks, Scott Ritchie
> 
> Which I really appreciate but realistically for Ubuntu 12.04, all 
> these fixes would need to be in the archive before Feature Freeze
> so we can consider turning on biosdevname by default.

Am I wrong, or did Dell request that we enable this feature by default
for Dell Poweredge servers *only*, by detecting at boot...and that
they had done something similar with Fedora?  If we can contain this
change to only affecting Dell servers, then any issues it creates
would also only affect Dell servers...and I'd think Dell would have a
self-interest in helping us resolve those asap. Right?


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