From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 3/4] man: ip-address: document 15-char limit for LABEL
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 20:04:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171229200457.2710e99b@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171229220125.13579-3-bluca@debian.org>
On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 23:01:24 +0100
Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> wrote:
> Trying to set a label longer than 15 characters returns an error:
> RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range
>
> Document the limit in the manpage.
>
> Originally reported as a Debian bug:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661886
>
> Reported-by: Gabor Kiss <kissg@ssg.ki.iif.hu>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> ---
> man/man8/ip-address.8.in | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/man/man8/ip-address.8.in b/man/man8/ip-address.8.in
> index eaa179c6..e7f14533 100644
> --- a/man/man8/ip-address.8.in
> +++ b/man/man8/ip-address.8.in
> @@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ Each address may be tagged with a label string.
> In order to preserve compatibility with Linux-2.0 net aliases,
> this string must coincide with the name of the device or must be prefixed
> with the device name followed by colon.
> +The maximum allowed length is 15 characters.
Since these are aliases, lets be precise:
The maximum allowed total length of label is 15 characters.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-30 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-29 22:01 [PATCH iproute2 1/4] man: drop references to Debian-specific paths Luca Boccassi
2017-12-29 22:01 ` [PATCH iproute2 2/4] man: add more keywords to ip.8 short description Luca Boccassi
2017-12-30 4:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-30 10:32 ` Luca Boccassi
2017-12-29 22:01 ` [PATCH iproute2 3/4] man: ip-address: document 15-char limit for LABEL Luca Boccassi
2017-12-30 4:04 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-12-30 10:32 ` Luca Boccassi
2017-12-29 22:01 ` [PATCH iproute2 4/4] man: routel/routef: don't mention filesystem paths Luca Boccassi
2017-12-30 4:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-30 10:31 ` [PATCH iproute2 v2 1/4] man: drop references to Debian-specific paths Luca Boccassi
2017-12-30 10:31 ` [PATCH iproute2 v2 2/4] man: add more keywords to ip.8 short description Luca Boccassi
2017-12-30 10:31 ` [PATCH iproute2 v2 3/4] man: ip-address: document 15-char limit for LABEL Luca Boccassi
2017-12-30 10:31 ` [PATCH iproute2 v2 4/4] man: routel/routef: don't mention filesystem paths Luca Boccassi
2017-12-30 17:44 ` [PATCH iproute2 v2 1/4] man: drop references to Debian-specific paths Stephen Hemminger
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