luci-mod-network: allow interface names to max of 15 chars

The Kernel receives the name suffix, so evaluate length on
the user provided name and disconnect the formatted name
code length check.

Closes #8390

Signed-off-by: Paul Donald <redacted>

diff --git a/modules/luci-mod-network/htdocs/luci-static/resources/view/network/interfaces.js b/modules/luci-mod-network/htdocs/luci-static/resources/view/network/interfaces.js
index 62dda23a10fff54f3ffab9a4a88661c28c9a41a2..9fc453c38a1b96c0cf3e295d35d6ad43636b3c88 100644 (file)
--- a/modules/luci-mod-network/htdocs/luci-static/resources/view/network/interfaces.js
+++ b/modules/luci-mod-network/htdocs/luci-static/resources/view/network/interfaces.js
@@ -1373,10 +1373,11 @@ return view.extend({
                                if (uci.get('network', value) != null)
                                        return _('The interface name is already used');
 
+                               /* // The kernel takes max 15 character names. We can skip this.
                                const pr = network.getProtocol(proto.formvalue(section_id), value);
                                const ifname = pr.isVirtual() ? '%s-%s'.format(pr.getProtocol(), value) : 'br-%s'.format(value);
-
-                               if (ifname.length > 15)
+                               */
+                               if (value.length > 15)
                                        return _('The interface name is too long');
 
                                return true;