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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 11:55:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20369.16555.46229.798603@mariner.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334918900.28331.47.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [patch] xen udev rule interfering with openvpn"):
> On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 11:38 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> >   Are we
> > sure that this isn't going to break some existing setup where the name
> > is already using most of the available length ?
> 
> On the contrary I'm fairly sure it will break them... How common they
> would be I can't say (other than my gut feeling being "not very").
> 
> Not sure what our options are here. Perhaps in the grant Unix tradition
> of dropping vowels and random consonants "xtp-". Or perhaps "emu-" (for
> emulated)?

I'm not quite up to speed with all the context here but is the reason
that you're not suggesting "xen-" is that that's already used for
something else ?

> This still adds a new 4 char prefix in the xl case but xend already had
> that behaviour so hopefully people haven't come to rely on it in the
> meantime.

I think that's a fair enough assumption.

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-20 10:55 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
2012-04-20 10:48           ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-20 10:55             ` Ian Jackson [this message]
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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