netdev - Re: [patch net-next 0/7] net: introduce alternative names for network interfaces

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Message-Id: <20191001.145135.250803701681433413.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:51:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com,
        dsahern@...il.com, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, dcbw@...hat.com,
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next 0/7] net: introduce alternative names for
 network interfaces

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:48:13 +0200

> This patchset introduces alternative names for network interfaces.
> Main goal is to:
> 1) Overcome the IFNAMSIZ limitation (altname limitation is 128 bytes)
> 2) Allow to have multiple names at the same time (multiple udev patterns)
> 3) Allow to use alternative names as handle for commands

Ok, let's see where this goes.

Series applied, thanks Jiri.