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Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15Posted Jan 29, 2011 14:34 UTC (Sat) by mdomsch (subscriber, #5920)In reply to: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15 by butlerm Parent article: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15
Unfortunately, the kernel->userspace ABI for network ioctl() calls defines the interface name to be IFNAM size, or 15 characters usable. It would be impossible to change every userspace program ever produced and in use to allow for a longer device name.
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