Public bug reported: The current network-config configuration for cloud-init on the Ubuntu Raspberry Pi images includes the following section for matching the built-in Ethernet port on all supported models of Pi:
ethernets: eth0: # Rename the built-in ethernet device to "eth0" match: driver: bcmgenet smsc95xx lan78xx set-name: eth0 dhcp4: true optional: true The space-separated list of driver names (actually globs) is the format supported by networkd; from systemd.network(5): Driver= A whitespace-separated list of shell-style globs matching the driver currently bound to the device, as exposed by the udev property ID_NET_DRIVER of its parent device, or if that is not set, the driver as exposed by ethtool -i of the device itself. If the list is prefixed with a "!", the test is inverted. Given that netplan only supports driver matching when the back-end is networkd, it would be logical to assume that it also permits multiple specifications here (although the format is somewhat incongruous given it's not a YAML list), and this had *appeared* to work historically (netplan happily copied the specification to /run/systemd/network/10 -netplan-eth0.link). However, while testing netplan under hirsute a recent change (specifically in 0.101-1) makes it clear that it is in fact failing to match the interface: $ sudo netplan apply [] Cannot find unique matching interface for 'eth0': {'driver': 'bcmgenet smsc95xx lan78xx'} A work-around I'm implementing for now is to use three separate sections (each with a different name) to split out the driver components but I get the impression netplan probably ought to support this a bit more elegantly given the underlying networkd back-end does. It would be trivial to tweak "is_interface_matching_driver_name" in netplan/cli/utils.py to support the space separated format (and I'm happy to provide a PR implementing that if requested) but for the sake of consistency I suspect the schema ought to be extended to support the option of a YAML list instead of a string for that value? ** Affects: netplan.io (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1918421 Title: netplan does not match multiple driver specifications To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netplan.io/+bug/1918421/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs