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On 04/01/2026 19:02, druck wrote:
> On 02/01/2026 17:32, Daniel James wrote:
>> On 02/01/2026 15:39, druck wrote:
>>> ... and unique names (such as wl0sp3 on my laptop)
>>
>> On my Thinkpad its wlp3s0. Those two couldn't possibly cause any 
>> confusion for anyone, I'm sure!
> 
> Actually mine is wlp3s0 too, I remembered it wrong!

Yes, it would be.

I wasn't thinking when I replied, but wl0sp3 isn't in the right format.

> Also as someone else mentioned, it's actually predicable names rather 
> than unique names.

Yes, for some strange value of "predictable" that requires you to know 
the naming scheme and also to know the hardware rather more intimately 
than most people usually have any need or desire to do.

See:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.
et-naming-scheme.html

-- 
Cheers,
  Daniel.




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