Comment 9 for bug 891258

Posted this to the ubuntu-devel mailing list yesterday, but it got moderated for some reason, even though I'm a member.

So biosdevname is something that Dell would like to have working in 12.04, regardless of whether it is enabled by default or not or our systems. So we see solving any hard-coded eth names or race conditions as mandatory for 12.04. That said, we’re willing to take a crack at identifying (and hopefully solving) the potential problems so that this works correctly. We did this last year already with Fedora, so we should have a good idea where to look. We’re also willing to pitch in and help test to verify that this is working as well.

I don’t know the specific cutoff date by when the decision needs to be made as to when this would be enabled/disabled by default in the installer, but upfront testing and bug closure should probably be done before the decision to enable would be made.