From 48afde6751ced648ffbe1d29bbd3097871b91327 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Pirko Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 14:10:32 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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" 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 -- 2.47.3