Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:23:40 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:29:43 +0200
> Why not simply retricting chars to isalnum() ones ?
As Bill said that would block things like "-" and "_" which are fine.
Bill also mentioned something about "breaking configs going back to 2.4.x" which is bogus because nothing broke when we started blocking "/" and "." and ".." in networking device names during the addition of sysfs support for net devices.
Nobody in their right mind puts a space in their network device name.
All you "name purists", go rename the block device name that is used for your root partition to something with a space in it, and watch how many startup scripts and command line invocations just explode.
There is absolutely no valid argument for allowing spaces in network device names. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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