From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: M A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>,
Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
Teck Choon Giam <giamteckchoon@gmail.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] xen udev rule interfering with openvpn
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:38:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20369.15528.270106.567037@mariner.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334912603.28331.2.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [patch] xen udev rule interfering with openvpn"):
> libxl/xend: name tap devices with a xentap prefix
...
> Also add "xentap-" prefix to the tap device when an explicit name is
> given to avoid a conflict with the vif device, which would otherwise
> have the same name. Likewise correct the documentation for this
> option which suggested it applied to HVM tap devices only.
This sounds like a good idea but of course the names of interfaces
on Linux have a fairly short (16 character) iirc length limit. Are we
sure that this isn't going to break some existing setup where the name
is already using most of the available length ?
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-20 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-16 19:03 [patch] xen udev rule interfering with openvpn M A Young
2012-04-17 10:26 ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-17 13:08 ` Roger Pau Monne
2012-04-18 18:25 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-04-19 6:39 ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-20 9:03 ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-20 10:38 ` Ian Jackson [this message]
2012-04-20 10:48 ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-20 10:55 ` Ian Jackson
2012-04-20 11:00 ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-20 11:04 ` Ian Jackson
2012-04-20 13:21 ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-20 15:26 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-04-20 15:38 ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-20 16:34 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-04-25 9:59 ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-25 10:11 ` Ian Jackson
2012-04-25 10:14 ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-25 12:58 ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-25 13:16 ` Roger Pau Monne
2012-04-25 13:38 ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-11 14:53 ` Ian Jackson
2012-05-11 23:53 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-12 7:29 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-12 22:00 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-12 22:30 ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-12 23:37 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-13 0:39 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-21 12:31 ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-21 12:51 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-21 13:04 ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-21 13:16 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-22 13:19 ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-23 2:22 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-23 9:37 ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-23 13:04 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-23 14:54 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-21 12:24 ` Teck Choon Giam
2012-05-21 12:49 ` Ian Campbell
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