From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
xavier.bestel@free.fr, 7eggert@gmx.de, cate@debian.org,
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
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:58:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E68C4E.8070607@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060818022057.GA27076@nostromo.devel.redhat.com>
Bill Nottingham wrote:
> David Miller (davem@davemloft.net) said:
>
>> From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
>> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:29:43 +0200
>>
>>
>>> Why not simply retricting chars to isalnum() ones ?
>>>
>> As Bill said that would block things like "-" and "_" which are fine.
>>
>> Bill also mentioned something about "breaking configs going back to
>> 2.4.x" which is bogus because nothing broke when we started blocking
>> "/" and "." and ".." in networking device names during the addition of
>> sysfs support for net devices.
>>
>
> I was mainly referring to if we started to filter it out to isalnum() -
> spaces/tab/CR etc. certainly could be filtered. (No idea what would
> happen with unicode nbsp or other silly things.)
>
> Bill
>
How just restrictiting to !isspace()
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-18 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ 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 [this message]
2006-08-18 6:11 ` [PATCH] net: restrict device names from having whitespace Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-18 6:36 ` David Miller
2006-08-18 7:17 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-18 9:32 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-15 19:48 bonding: cannot remove certain named devices Bill Nottingham
2006-08-15 20:39 ` Mitch Williams
2006-08-15 20:45 ` Bill Nottingham
2006-08-15 21:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-15 21:49 ` Bill Nottingham
2006-08-15 22:41 ` Mitch Williams
2006-08-15 22:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-15 22:56 ` David Miller
2006-08-15 23:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-15 23:26 ` Mitch Williams
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