Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750768AbWHOUqE (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:46:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750756AbWHOUqD (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:46:03 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:30434 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750725AbWHOUqB (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:46:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:45:55 -0400 From: Bill Nottingham To: Mitch Williams Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices Message-ID: <20060815204555.GB4434@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Mitch Williams , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060815194856.GA3869@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 619 Lines: 15 Mitch Williams (mitch.a.williams@intel.com) said: > Are spaces allowed in interface names anyway? I can't believe that > bonding is the only area affected by this. They're certainly allowed, and the sysfs directory structure, files, etc. handle it ok. Userspace tends to break in a variety of ways. I believe the only invalid character in an interface name is '/'. Bill - 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/