On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Kris Lindgren <klindg...@godaddy.com> wrote:
> I shortened the port name lengths and it is indeed working.
>
> Did 1.10 increase the port name length?

No but since patch ports are no longer implemented in the kernel not
all system limitations still apply.

> Whats the reason behind the
> character limitation?

This is the limit for all device names in Linux.

> It would be nice instead of just failing out right if
> something would indicated that the name is too long.

The limit is OS-dependent but the utilities/database are not (and may
not be running on the same OS) so it is difficult to enforce.
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