[ale] eth numbering change

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 17:05 -0500, Phil Turmel wrote:
> On 02/13/2017 04:50 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> > I keep swearing (more than usual) I'm gonna build by blasted tool
> > called
> > "shoehorn" to help squeeze into a tight boot. The basic idea is to
> > PXE
> > boot a generic kernel with EVERYTHING as modules, probe all
> > hardware,
> > report back to a master server the list of found hardware, it
> > assembles
> > a new kernel with nothing but what's needed or points to an
> > existing
> > kernel, set's up a perm PXE boot environment based on MACs and then
> > provides the slimmest kernel and initramfs possible.
> 
> That would be really cool.  Probably could retool the kernel's
> existing
> make localmodconfig to take your report data instead of the kernel
> build
> machine's data.

Looking at a database for local machine config for inventory reasons.
This is useful for large environments mostly.
I hadn't thought of the localmodconfig. Must test with a pile of odd
crap I have access to.
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