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From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 3/4] man: ip-address: document 15-char limit
 for LABEL
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 11:32:13 +0100
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On Fri, 2017-12-29 at 20:04 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 23:01:24 +0100
> Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> wrote:
>=20
> > Trying to set a label longer than 15 characters returns an error:
> > =C2=A0RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range
> >=20
> > Document the limit in the manpage.
> >=20
> > Originally reported as a Debian bug:
> >=20
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D661886
> >=20
> > Reported-by: Gabor Kiss <kissg@ssg.ki.iif.hu>
> > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> > ---
> > =C2=A0man/man8/ip-address.8.in | 1 +
> > =C2=A01 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >=20
> > 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.
> > =C2=A0In order to preserve compatibility with Linux-2.0 net aliases,
> > =C2=A0this string must coincide with the name of the device or must be
> > prefixed
> > =C2=A0with the device name followed by colon.
> > +The maximum allowed length is 15 characters.
>=20
> Since these are aliases, lets be precise:
> The maximum allowed total length of label is 15 characters.

Ok, done in v2, thanks

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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