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Tsirkin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 04:46:40PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 11:14:46AM -0400, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 10:40:50AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>>> +Although 247 byte device ID strings are allowed, there may be >>>> +interoperability problems if strings longer than 128 bytes are used= =2E >>> >>> Can you be more specific? Is the concern that the guest software stac= k >>> above of the driver may not be prepared for serial strings longer tha= n >>> 128 bytes? >> >> I'll add more detail in the next version, but in brief the problems >> are twofold: >> >> (1) Windows supports up to 128 "characters" (they're not precise but >> they probably mean Unicode codepoints from the Basic Multilingual Plan= e): >> >> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/storpor= t/ns-storport-stor_serial_number >> >> (2) When udev tries to encode a very long serial into a >> /dev/disk/by-id path you end up uncomfortably close to NAME_MAX (255).= >> >>>> +It is also advisable to use only 7 bit ASCII characters. >>> >>> Versus "The device ID string is an ASCII string which can be up to 24= 7 >>> bytes long" earlier in this patch. Is ASCII a "SHOULD" or a "MUST"? >> >> It's "SHOULD". I can't see any good coming from trying to use >> anything except letters, numbers and dashes in a serial, but both >> Linux and Windows (see above) could in theory handle Unicode. >> >> Rich. >=20 >=20 > Linux actually has code to try and handle that. unicode > is actually the less problematic part - ascii is > full of pitfalls, eith things like > slashes are much weirder - e.g. udev will create > a subdirectory with slashes. what will windows do? > and what will it do with backslashes? /me shrugs What about /../../../../../../../../..? 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