Comment 7 for bug 1235162

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TJ (tj) wrote : Re: Persistent net names via /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules fail

This is confirmed as a systemd-udev regression.

Code that previously existed in rename_netif() to support a temporary interface name ("rename%u") has been removed. As a result, the '70-persistent-net.rules' actions that try to shuffle existing names will now fail.

systemd commit log:

commit 97595710b77aa162ca5e20da57d0a1ed7355eaad
Author: Kay Sievers <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Jul 5 17:40:50 2012 +0200

    udev: network device renaming - immediately give up if the target name isn't available