Re: Is it possible to undo the ixgbe device name change?

[David Howells]

Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Are you sure this patch is directly responsible? Looking at the patch

I bisected it to that commit.  Userspace didn't change.

> Notice the context, not the change. The interface is being called
> eth%d, which is normal. The kernel will replace the %d with a unique
> number. So the kernel will call it eth42 or something. You should see
> this in dmesg.

Something like this?

... systemd-udevd[2215]: link_config: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable.
... kernel: ixgbe 0000:01:00.0 enp1s0: renamed from eth0

or:

... systemd-udevd[2568]: link_config: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable.
... kernel: ixgbe 0000:01:00.0 enp1s0np0: renamed from eth0

I presume the kernel message saying that the renaming happened is triggered by
systemd-udevd?

David