Rhel-8 new custom NIC names helper - net.ifnames.prefix

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The project itself is maintained here: https://github.com/msekletar/prefixdevname
It is fully integrated into the rhel-8 and a user does not need to do anything to make it ready for use. The only thing that a user needs to do to use it is to introduce kernel cmd param net.ifnames.prefix= to the currently used kernel.

Note that if this ne...

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