Hello Kiss Gabor (Bitman),
Following up on old bug report available at
https://bugs.debian.org/661886
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 01:05:47PM +0100, Kiss Gabor (Bitman) wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> > Would be awesome if you where willing to write a patch for this and
> > send it upstream. As you might be aware there are several other areas
>
> No problem. I'll do it. :)
Was there every any progress on this?
If not, I have to voice my skeptisism here about documenting what seems
to be a *linux* limitation in iproute2.
The relevant code in iproute2 suggests that the netlink protocol does
not have a particular limitation on label length:
} else if (strcmp(*argv, "label") == 0) {
NEXT_ARG();
l = *argv;
addattr_l(&req.n, sizeof(req), IFA_LABEL, l,
strlen(l)+1);
FWIW, This is similar to the situation in util-linux, where as one
example people usually request fsck and mount document filesystem
specific options. This quickly gets outdated and inconsistent as it
depends on which version of linux you're using and so on. It's much
better if Linux documents its own restrictions and you check the
documentation in the particular version you're using. (The conclusion in
the util-linux camp has been to stop documenting these things, although
the existing documentation has not (yet) been fully removed.)
I'd thus leave the suggestion to the new maintainers to consider
this bug report a wontfix and closing it.
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
