From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@osdl.org
Cc: xavier.bestel@free.fr, 7eggert@gmx.de, cate@debian.org,
7eggert@elstempel.de, mitch.a.williams@intel.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: restrict device names from having whitespace
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:36:44 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060817.233644.97293084.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060817231127.6438324e@localhost.localdomain>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:11:27 -0700
> Don't allow spaces in network device names because it makes
> it difficult to provide text interfaces via sysfs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
I have a patch which does this in my tree already Stephen.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-18 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-08-16 0:02 ` bonding: cannot remove certain named devices Bodo Eggert
2006-08-16 0:02 ` Bodo Eggert
2006-08-16 0:10 ` David Miller
2006-08-16 6:35 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2006-08-16 13:38 ` Bill Nottingham
2006-08-16 13:59 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2006-08-16 15:11 ` Bodo Eggert
2006-08-17 7:29 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-17 14:12 ` Bill Nottingham
2006-08-17 23:23 ` David Miller
2006-08-18 0:34 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18 1:01 ` David Miller
2006-08-18 2:20 ` Bill Nottingham
2006-08-19 3:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-18 6:11 ` [PATCH] net: restrict device names from having whitespace Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-18 6:36 ` David Miller [this message]
2006-08-18 7:17 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-18 9:32 ` Xavier Bestel
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