Using biosdevname by default?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 7 11:08:36 UTC 2012


On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 04:48:32PM -0500, James M. Leddy wrote:
> On 02/06/2012 01:06 PM, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > I'm unsure the timeline John's team will be able to commit to finding
> > and fixing these things.  Feature freeze sounds a bit tight to me.  I've
> > offered to help to review and sponsor his team's fixes however as they
> > find them.
> 
> I suspect that the hard part of this is installer changes, especially
> since the scripts and applications that break as a result of using
> biosdevname are probably not too distro-specific.

No, the necessary installer changes are small and easily handled.  It's
the knock-on effects on the rest of the distribution that will take
time.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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