From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: eth1394: use "firewire%d" instead of "eth%d" as interface name Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 18:43:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20090521134856.GA3457@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <4A1565B6.10907@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jiri Pirko , linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jay Fenlason To: Stefan Richter Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A1565B6.10907@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Sender: linux-hotplug-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 16:31, Stefan Richter wrote: > Usually I prefer brevity too. =C2=A0Alas, it may not be clear to many= people what > "fw" is supposed to mean. =C2=A0People 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: =C2=A0The kernel's networking c= ore requires > that these names fit into 15 characters plus trailing \0. =C2=A0I 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 interfa= ce > 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@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html