Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Thu, 21 May 2009 18:43:01 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: eth1394: use "firewire%d" instead of "eth%d" as interface name |
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On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 16:31, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> 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. :)
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