Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH 50/51] Check user supplied interface name lengths

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:09:45 -0700

On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 14:05:09 +0200
Phil Sutter <[email-masked]> wrote:

> +void assert_valid_dev_name(const char *, const char *);

Not a fan of long function names.
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

Maybe just add a new function addattr_ifname() and add the checking there?