From: Patrick McHardy <redacted>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 05:07:16 +0200

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

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On Saturday 2008-05-24 22:31, Patrick McHardy wrote:

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David Woodhouse wrote:

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On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 10:15 +0100, James Chapman wrote:

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Wouldn't it be better to fix any applications that can't handle
renamed devices?

_Are_ there any such applications? Other than NetworkManager crapping
itself when the device name is too long, I'm not aware of any.

iptraf uses device names to determine the device type:

Run `iptraf -u`, and it works with any name.

Thanks for the hint. Its stupid nevertheless.

I think it's stupid too.

Physical geography information for a device is available
to userspace already.  If tools want to present that to
the user in a suitable interface, fine.  But what is
being proposed here is not necessary to implement that.