On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 16:31, Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Usually I prefer brevity too. Alas, it may not be clear to many people what > "fw" is supposed to mean. People might associate it with, let's say, > "firewall" before "firewire" when they deal with networking. However, more > opinions on this are welcome. Yeah, common one is also "firmware". I think "firewire" is fine. > As for practical length restrictions: The kernel's networking core requires > that these names fit into 15 characters plus trailing \0. I don't have an > idea whether there are userland components which have even tighter > restrictions. > > Does anybody know of potential trouble in networking tools if interface > names are 9 or 10 characters long? I don't think so, stuff at the tools level usually works flawlessly with "eth0_rename_ren" devices, when things went wrong with renaming the devices. :) Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
