The easiest thing to do is to change "auto /eth0" back to "auto eth0".  This 
lets bitbake's ifupdown initialize eth0 and also allows the real ifupdown to 
initialize en* interfaces if they exist.

Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 10:29 AM
> To: Ross Burton <ross.bur...@arm.com>; Slater, Joseph
> <joe.sla...@windriver.com>
> Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; MacLeod, Randy
> <randy.macl...@windriver.com>
> Subject: Re: [oe-core][PATCH 1/1] init-ifupdown: add predictable interface 
> names
> 
> On Wed, 2024-04-10 at 13:41 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> > On 10 Jan 2024, at 21:10, Joe Slater via lists.openembedded.org
> > <joe.slater=windriver....@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> > > -# Wired or wireless interfaces
> > > -auto eth0
> > > +# Wired or wireless interfaces including predictable names auto
> > > +/eth0
> >
> > Obviously we’re days away from release but I think we need to revert
> > or rewrite this.
> >
> > The /name syntax is specific to “proper” ifupdown, so any system which
> > uses busybox’s ifupdown will fail to have functional networking.  We
> > don’t see this on the AB because there is a separate interfaces file
> > for the qemuall override, this file is only used in non-qemu
> > situations.
> 
> I'm worried about the number of other changes over the last few months that 
> are
> related to this so a simple revert might not get us to a good place.
> 
> I'd like to see a patch proposal on what we should do. Time is short as 
> testing
> changes takes time and we're now a bit behind already :/.
> 
> So specific proposals welcome.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard

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