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

[Calvin Owens <calvin@wbinvd.org>]

On Friday 08/22 at 07:23 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:23:20 -0700 Calvin Owens wrote:
> > > > 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.