[rhelv6-list] RHEL 6.4 udev just butchered my ethernet device names!

[Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list]

On 02/21/2013 01:18 PM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion 
mailing-list wrote:
> The Dell (among other IHV) implemented em?, p?p?, etc... nomenclature 
> should still be upstream-only, and not seen until RHEL7. Is this a 
> Dell server? Are you running any (possibly updated?) IHV packages, 
> even if not Dell

On a Dell Precision M65 laptop here, running CentOS 6.3 (kernel 
2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64):
[lowen at dhcp-pool146 ~]$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
           inet6 addr: xxxxxxxxxx/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1049
           TX packets:0 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
           Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:1060 (1.0 KiB)  TX bytes:1060 (1.0 KiB)

p4p1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:C5:XX:XX:XX
           inet addr:192.168.1.146  Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:80601 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:44526 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:56461092 (53.8 MiB)  TX bytes:5885252 (5.6 MiB)
           Interrupt:18

virbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 52:54:00:XX:XX:XX
           inet addr:192.168.122.1  Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:4652 (4.5 KiB)

[lowen at dhcp-pool146 ~]$

eth0 is the BCM4321 _WIRELESS_ card; p4p1 is:
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)

And while I know this is CentOS, not RHEL, it should act the same being 
built from the same sources; it's been this way since the initial 6.3 
release kernel (2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64).

Now, I do have an RHEL 6.x box, and I'm getting ready to file a bugzilla 
with it, since the 358.el6.i686 (and the quick-released 
358.0.1.el6.i686) kernels panic on boot, but the 279.22.1 kernel does 
not.  That's a Supermicro dual Xeon board, an oldie but a goodie P4DP6 
with 32-bit 2.8GHz Xeons.  But that's a separate issue....