Re: kernel frameworks for jumbo frame

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 11/03/2019 08:37, John Franklin wrote:
> This is something I thought was solved *years ago* in the Linux world, and I don’t understand why udev/systemd had to break it.

udev has changed nameing scheme at least twice in my memory.
This is on top of any kernel changes in this area.

> Splitting eth0 vs wifi0 makes sense to me, as the inherent nature of the devices are fundamentally different.

This actually makes little sense to me - as a developer.
I can tell wifi from ethernet by virtue of the SSID property being 
present via ifconfig.

What I struggle to tell, regardles of OS, is if a device is physical or 
virtual (such as PPP, TAP or TUN). On BSD, because the name cannot be 
changed, I can derive this. But a hard coded list of device names to 
special case is pretty bad really.

Roy