Matt Zagrabelny, on mar. 11 juil. 2017 09:53:58 -0500, wrote: > Relatedly, network device name lengths are limited to the length of some > arbitrarily-sized struct field in the kernel ABI, > > Feature request to bump the size of of interface names struct? Any reason to > not do so?
One reason is that it's already compiled in a lot of applications through the IFNAMSIZ and IF_NAMESIZE macros (8155 and 939 results in codesearch), so a lot of software would suddently break on interfaces with long names until recompiled. Samuel