From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 12:10:32 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: NEWS: mention auxiliary sub-function (SF) network device naming
X-Git-Tag: v261-rc1~88^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F42154%2Fhead;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

NEWS: mention auxiliary sub-function (SF) network device naming

Document user-visible effect of the new NAMING_SUBFUNC / v261 scheme.

Co-developed-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dab0ddecfc5..550fcb0eb10 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -299,6 +299,11 @@ CHANGES WITH 261 in spe:
           GPT header (i.e. is partitioned) but the block device has partition
           table processing turned off.
 
+        * Persistent network interface naming has been extended to auxiliary
+          sub-function (SF) network devices (such as mlx5_core SFs), using an
+          "S<sfnum>" suffix appended to the parent PCI function's name (e.g.
+          "enp193s0f0S88").
+
         Changes in systemd-boot, systemd-stub, bootctl, ukify:
 
         * systemd-stub will now maintain a "boot secret" and pass it to the OS