Re: [PATCH net] i40e: Prevent unwanted interface name changes

On Friday 08/22 at 07:23 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:23:20 -0700 Calvin Owens wrote:

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If you actually have data on that, obviously that's different. But it
sounds like you're guessing just like I am.  

I could only guess about other OS Vendors, one could check it also
for Ubuntu in their public git, but I don't think we need more data, as
ultimate judge here are Stable Maintainers  

Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, it's udev after all that decides to
read the thing in /sys and name the interfaces differently because it's
there...

Yeah, that's my feeling. Ideally there should be a systemd-networkd
setting that let's user opt out of adding the phys_port_name on
interfaces. 99% of users will not benefit from these, new drivers or
old. We're kinda making everyone suffer for the 1% :(

Thanks Jakub.

I let myself get too worked up about this, I apologize for being such a
pig in this thread. My frustration is not directed at anybody here, I
hope it hasn't come across that way.