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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 09:47:07 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] Support for long interface names
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To: Marcel Waldvogel <marcel.waldvogel@uni-konstanz.de>
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:00:49 +0100
Marcel Waldvogel <marcel.waldvogel@uni-konstanz.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> I've added support for long bridge interface names (such as"br-
> 0081a64f416f") to "brctl show" (long physical interface names arenot a
> problem there).
> Please find a branch with the commit at 
> https://github.com/MarcelWaldvogel/bridge-utils/tree/long-ifnames
> 
> -Marcel

Thanks but I have no plans to add any new features to bridge-utils.
Just like ifconfig, users should migrate to the new bridge command
in iproute2.