Comment 3 for bug 891258

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:39:46PM -0000, James M. Leddy wrote:
> What Dell is would like here is that this happens automatically for
> PowerEdge machines. I don't think it matters if they need to put
> 'biosdevname=1' in the kernel cmdline to make it happen, but then this
> is just pushed off as an installer bug.

They should be able to put 'biosdevname=1' in the kernel command line
today (in fact, since natty). Is this not working?

> Just so we're clear on the user impact, biosdevname is a technology
[...]

I know, I uploaded it to Ubuntu :-)

> Biosdevname cuts down on the confusion for these users, and we would
> like Ubuntu server users to have a good experience out of the box
> rather than having to trawl documentation or search the Internet
> afterward install for a fix. A few other distros are already doing
> this by default for PowerEdge machines so without this feature request
> Ubuntu serve rwill fall behind in terms of user experience.

While this is true in some ways, it also means that there's (for
example) never an eth0 interface. I'm not comfortable with doing this
for one class of machine, thus creating testing skew between different
classes of machines that renders it more difficult to do QA on anything
that touches network interfaces in any way, without the explicit consent
and buy-in of the server team; since they will end up debugging and
fixing issues that arise from it.