Bug in Initscripts...?
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Aug 6 23:53:54 UTC 2007
semi linux (linuxsemi at gmail.com) said:
> I'm not sure if this is a "bug", something that has been left-out or
> an intentional design decision. So feel free to tell me if I'm out to
> lunch.
>
> In FC4, initscripts-8.11.1 will not rename an interfaces based on
> HWADDR unless ONBOOT=yes...
>
> I'm upgrading to F7 (or RHEL 5) soon but I was wondering the current
> status of this issue. I scoured the Changelog on RHEL5
> (initscripts-8.45.14.EL) and got nothing. Before I pull down the CVS
> history and follow the code path I was wondering if anyone had dealt
> with this before.
It's very much intentional, as with udev interfaces can be loaded
in a random order. So renaming them all on module load is simplest.
Bill
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