Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965020AbWHQOMc (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:12:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965019AbWHQOMc (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:12:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:64186 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964872AbWHQOMa (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:12:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:12:01 -0400 From: Bill Nottingham To: Xavier Bestel Cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" , David Miller , 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: <20060817141201.GB18904@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Xavier Bestel , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" , David Miller , 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> <20060816133811.GA26471@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <1155799783.7566.5.camel@capoeira> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1155799783.7566.5.camel@capoeira> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 819 Lines: 19 Xavier Bestel (xavier.bestel@free.fr) said: > > I think it's sane to avoid control characters and unicode/iso*, since they > > can interfere with log output or analysis. I only thought about the kernel > > itself and the corresponding userspace tools, which should handle any > > character sequence just fine or could be easily fixed. > > Why not simply retricting chars to isalnum() ones ? People might want to use things like '-', '_', etc. Realistically, any filtering that is done with names has the chance of breaking 'working' configs that date back to 2.4. 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/