Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: restrict device names from having whitespace | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:17:26 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 08:11, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Don't allow spaces in network device names because it makes > it difficult to provide text interfaces via sysfs.
Personally I would at least avoid all chars <= ' ', because an interface name is meant to be displayed and these control chars do no good on a console nor in X.
Xav
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