David Woodhouse wrote:

On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 10:15 +0100, James Chapman wrote:

quoted

Wouldn't it be better to fix any applications that can't handle
renamed devices?

_Are_ there any such applications? Other than NetworkManager crapping
itself when the device name is too long, I'm not aware of any.

I think pppd is one such app (multilink and radius features may break), 
though this thread has only been concerned with eth devices so far. I'm 
sure I used a command line tool recently that was checking device names 
for eth%d patterns but I can't remember what it was now. :(

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