On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 05:33:20PM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote: > Linux has a fixed size interface name, which will not change. This means > that attempts to dump interfaces whose names are larger than the max size > will result in an error making the tap device. > > This commit brings a new function. When the generated name would be too > large, use a random number prefixed by 'ovsmi' instead. > > Reported-by: Bhanuprakash Bodireddy <bhanuprakash.bodire...@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com>
I applied this to master, thanks! I am not sure whether it is worthwhile making this platform-specific, since most Unix-like platforms I know of have the same limit as Linux, and every platform I know of supports interface names at least 15 bytes long. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
