On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:10:03PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:

ethN is fundamentally a nondeterministic namespace, and trying to
enforce determinism on it is, from all my attempts, impossible.  Hence
the desire to change the namespace.  But there can be many
different naming policies one might want (including the
nondeterministic ethN policy), and for all other types of devices this
isn't a problem - we can have all the policies we want, in parallel.
Only for network devices we can't.

So pick one in your installer and stick with it.  Doesn't seem that
complicated to me...

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