Network interface renamed when unload/load alx

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Hi,

On Ubuntu 14.04.2 when you unload and then reload the alx module, the NIC is always renamed to eth0.

On my computer, the main network interface is named p19p1 (name given by biosdevname).
When doing :
sudo rmmod alx
sudo modprobe alx
the interface is renamed to eth0.

It is a little bit annoying because the module is unload when the computer is suspended. So when resuming from suspend, the network stops working...

I found a workaround by modifying the udev rules :
sudo cp /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/10-network.rules
sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/10-network.rules

Changing at the end of the line :
KERNEL=="p19p1", NAME="eth0"

And by modifying /etc/network/interfaces :

auto p19p1

iface p19p1 inet dhcp

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

But I think more investigation is needed to make it works ot of the box

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OS : Ubuntu 14.04.2
Kernel : 3.16.0-37-generic
NIC : Qualcomm Atheros AR816x/AR817x Ethernet