Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750741AbWHOVtY (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:49:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750740AbWHOVtY (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:49:24 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:13987 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750738AbWHOVtX (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:49:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:49:14 -0400 From: Bill Nottingham To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Mitch Williams , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices Message-ID: <20060815214914.GA5307@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Stephen Hemminger , Mitch Williams , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060815194856.GA3869@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <20060815204555.GB4434@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <20060815140249.15472a82@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060815140249.15472a82@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 751 Lines: 21 Stephen Hemminger (shemminger@osdl.org) said: > > 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 '/'. > > > > The names "." and ".." are also verboten. Right. Well, I suspect they're verboten-because-some-code-breaks-making-the-directory. > Names with : in them are for IP aliases. That's certainly not enforced at the kernel level. 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/