You can find more details abut our use case here: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/MGMT-13970

Patch sent to upstream: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2183214

Introducing two properties to base interface:
 * `identifier` -- `name` or `mac-address`, default to `name`
 * `profile-name`: string

When identifier been set to `mac-address`, nmstate will not use
`interface.name` for NIC matching but use the `interface.mac-address`, The
`interface.name` will be used for `profile-name` when storing the network
configuration in backend.

The `profile-name` will be hide if it is equal to interface name.

Example on creating MAC based profile:

```yml
---
interfaces:
- name: wan0
  type: ethernet
  state: up
  identifier: mac-address
  mac-address: 1e:bd:23:e9:fb:94
```

You may delete above profile using `name: wan0` or its real interface name.

Of course, gen_conf mode is also supported as this bug requested.

Verified with:
nmstate-2.2.10-3.el9.x86_64
nispor-1.2.10-1.el9.x86_64
NetworkManager-1.43.8-1.el9.x86_64
DISTRO=RHEL-9.3.0-updates-20230520.44

[17:03:32@dell-per730-20 ~]0# nms set nic-by-mac.yaml 
/tmp/nmstatelog/2023-05-21-17:05:09-855797622.log
dns-resolver: {}
route-rules: {}
routes: {}
interfaces:
- name: test0
  type: ethernet
  state: up
  identifier: mac-address
  mac-address: 00:1B:21:97:78:CC
  mtu: 2000
  ipv4:
    enabled: true
    address:
    - ip: 192.168.199.1
      prefix-length: 24
  ipv6:
    enabled: true
    address:
    - ip: 192:168:199::1
      prefix-length: 64
  accept-all-mac-addresses: false
  ethtool:
    pause:
      rx: true
      tx: false
      autoneg: true
    feature:
      tx-gso-partial: true
      rx-hashing: true
      tx-udp-segmentation: true
      tx-gre-segmentation: true
      tx-udp_tnl-csum-segmentation: true
      tx-ipxip4-segmentation: true
      tx-ipxip6-segmentation: true
      tx-checksum-sctp: true
      rx-checksum: true
      tx-generic-segmentation: true
      tx-gre-csum-segmentation: true
      tx-tcp-mangleid-segmentation: false
      rx-gro: true
      tx-tcp-segmentation: true
      tx-vlan-hw-insert: true
      tx-nocache-copy: false
      rx-vlan-hw-parse: true
      tx-tcp6-segmentation: true
      rx-gro-list: false
      tx-checksum-ip-generic: true
      rx-all: false
      tx-udp_tnl-segmentation: true
      rx-udp-gro-forwarding: false
    coalesce:
      rx-usecs: 3
      tx-usecs: 0
    ring:
      rx: 256
      rx-max: 4096
      tx: 256
      tx-max: 4096
  ethernet:
    sr-iov:
      total-vfs: 0
      vfs: []
    auto-negotiation: true
    speed: 1000
    duplex: full
ovs-db: {}

/tmp/nmstatelog/2023-05-21-17:05:09-855797622.0.log nmstatectl set nic-by-mac.yaml return 0
[17:05:13@dell-per730-20 ~]0# nmcli c
NAME      UUID                                  TYPE      DEVICE   
eno1      184ea86d-0bc4-4e19-9d4e-a828056a451c  ethernet  eno1     
test0     c1a12d19-08c5-414b-b50f-8da90d14a3f7  ethernet  enp6s0f0 
lo        5da60107-645d-487a-9c27-64bdd88dd1b7  loopback  lo       
eno2      93dd178f-bff5-4b1f-9e20-9174698cb3de  ethernet  --       
eno3      4d892a58-32da-4c87-af42-29e88e1ad90e  ethernet  --       
eno4      58573d6e-2149-4293-829c-614f4cc8357e  ethernet  --       
enp6s0f0  a165c5a4-c222-4a41-940c-f459def0b28b  ethernet  --       
enp6s0f1  a4bd6ede-f508-4b2b-bc9a-247f661bac4a  ethernet  --       
[17:05:17@dell-per730-20 ~]0# nms show test0
dns-resolver: {}
route-rules: {}
routes: {}
interfaces: []

[17:07:57@dell-per730-20 ~]0# nms show enp6s0f0
dns-resolver: {}
route-rules: {}
routes: {}
interfaces:
- name: enp6s0f0
  profile-name: test0
  type: ethernet
  state: up
  identifier: mac-address
  mac-address: 00:1B:21:97:78:CC
  mtu: 2000
  min-mtu: 68
  max-mtu: 9216
  wait-ip: any
  ipv4:
    enabled: true
    dhcp: false
    address:
    - ip: 192.168.199.1
      prefix-length: 24
  ipv6:
    enabled: true
    dhcp: false
    autoconf: false
    address:
    - ip: 192:168:199::1
      prefix-length: 64
    - ip: fe80::21b:21ff:fe97:78cc
      prefix-length: 64
    addr-gen-mode: eui64
  mptcp:
    address-flags: []
  accept-all-mac-addresses: false
  lldp:
    enabled: false
  ethtool:
    pause:
      rx: true
      tx: false
      autoneg: true
    feature:
      tx-tcp-segmentation: true
      tx-ipxip6-segmentation: true
      tx-udp_tnl-segmentation: true
      tx-tcp-mangleid-segmentation: false
      tx-gre-segmentation: true
      tx-generic-segmentation: true
      tx-nocache-copy: false
      tx-udp_tnl-csum-segmentation: true
      rx-gro: true
      rx-gro-list: false
      tx-checksum-ip-generic: true
      tx-gre-csum-segmentation: true
      tx-checksum-sctp: true
      tx-tcp6-segmentation: true
      tx-ipxip4-segmentation: true
      rx-hashing: true
      rx-vlan-hw-parse: true
      rx-checksum: true
      tx-vlan-hw-insert: true
      rx-all: false
      tx-gso-partial: true
      rx-udp-gro-forwarding: false
      tx-udp-segmentation: true
    coalesce:
      rx-usecs: 3
      tx-usecs: 0
    ring:
      rx: 256
      rx-max: 4096
      tx: 256
      tx-max: 4096
  ethernet:
    sr-iov:
      total-vfs: 0
      vfs: []
    auto-negotiation: true
    speed: 1000
    duplex: full

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (nmstate bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:6323