Hard to say at the moment. The machine is on 24/7 and is serving a rather large company. I might be able to try to shut it down for sometime late Friday. But can't promise anything. If I do should expect the mainline kernel NOT to change the interfaces names ?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1666209 Title: PPC new 4.4.0-63-powerpc63-smp kernel kills networking Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in linux source package in Xenial: Triaged Bug description: After upgrading to a new kernel (4.4.0-63-powerpc64-smp) completely lost ethernet. Looks like the kernel doesn't load a module for my interface (driver r8169). Rolling back to previous kernel version fixes networking. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1666209/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp