Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750870AbWHRHRj (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:17:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750839AbWHRHRj (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:17:39 -0400 Received: from smtp6.orange.fr ([193.252.22.25]:928 "EHLO smtp-msa-out06.orange.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750770AbWHRHRi (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:17:38 -0400 X-ME-UUID: 20060818071737586.8F0A71C0008B@mwinf0602.orange.fr Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: restrict device names from having whitespace From: Xavier Bestel To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: David Miller , 7eggert@gmx.de, cate@debian.org, 7eggert@elstempel.de, mitch.a.williams@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060817231127.6438324e@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060816133811.GA26471@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <1155799783.7566.5.camel@capoeira> <20060817.162340.74748342.davem@davemloft.net> <20060818022057.GA27076@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <44E68C4E.8070607@osdl.org> <20060817231127.6438324e@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1155885446.7566.15.camel@capoeira> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-1) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:17:26 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 582 Lines: 15 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 - 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/