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Systemd 197 released

Systemd 197 released

Posted Jan 8, 2013 21:51 UTC (Tue) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647)
In reply to: Systemd 197 released by mezcalero
Parent article: Systemd 197 released

It's not really clear from the documentation -- what happens if the USB path doesn't fit in 15 characters?


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Systemd 197 released

Posted Jan 8, 2013 22:52 UTC (Tue) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103) [Link]

Then we won't use that name. The rule is basically: if the chosen policy makes sense for a device, all the necessary information for it is available for a device, and if the name would fit in IFNAMSIZ then we use it, otherwise we give up, and try another policy, or just stick to the kernel name.

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