Re: [Xen-devel] vif-bridge: ip link set failed, "name" too long

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 12:36 +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> Error: argument "tap695cf459-b0-emu" is wrong: "name" too long

Under Linux IFNAMSIZ is 16, whereas this is 18 characters.

Since our suffix is "-emu" we are adding 4 to the original 14, so we
could/should pick a 2 character suffix to distinguish PV from emulated
interfaces. "-e" perhaps?

It looks like the suffix is in both 
tools/hotplug/Linux/vif-common.sh and
tools/libxl/libxl_internal.h:TAP_DEVICE_SUFFIX. We could perhaps arrange
somehow that only the hotplug scripts needed to know this, allowing this
to be a more localised decision but it would no doubt involve a bunch of
faff. I'm inclined to suggest we just change the suffix globally.

Ian.


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