Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750998AbWHPNik (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:38:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751008AbWHPNik (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:38:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:13221 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750983AbWHPNij (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:38:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:38:11 -0400 From: Bill Nottingham To: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" Cc: David Miller , 7eggert@gmx.de, 7eggert@elstempel.de, shemminger@osdl.org, mitch.a.williams@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices Message-ID: <20060816133811.GA26471@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" , David Miller , 7eggert@gmx.de, 7eggert@elstempel.de, shemminger@osdl.org, mitch.a.williams@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <6KfTz-OX-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <6KfTA-OX-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <20060815.171002.104028951.davem@davemloft.net> <44E2BC9C.1000101@debian.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44E2BC9C.1000101@debian.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 824 Lines: 20 Giacomo A. Catenazzi (cate@debian.org) said: > > Are you willing to work to add the special case code necessary to > > handle whitespace characters in the device name over all of the kernel > > code and also all of the userland tools too? > > But if you don't handle spaces in userspace, you handle *, ?, [, ], $, > ", ', \ in userspace? Should kernel disable also these (insane device > chars) chars? Don't forget unicode characters! Seriously, while it might be insane to use some of these, I'm wondering if trying to filter names is more work than fixing the tools. 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/