Re: Errors running current SVN code

[Tambet Ingo <tambet ximian com>]

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 10:07 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Note also that devices themselves are assigned a UID, because if you
> change 'eth0' to something else on the fly (interface renaming is
> obviously allowed) then NM shouldn't break here either.  Having human
> readable names was somewhat more compelling in the early days of D-Bus
> when there weren't as good API, tools, and documentation.  But that day
> is long past.

Why not use HAL UDI for device names to get at least some sort of
human-readable names?

Tambet