From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:34:43 +0100 Message-ID: <1155861283.15195.112.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060816133811.GA26471@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <1155799783.7566.5.camel@capoeira> <20060817.162340.74748342.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: xavier.bestel@free.fr, 7eggert@gmx.de, notting@redhat.com, cate@debian.org, 7eggert@elstempel.de, shemminger@osdl.org, mitch.a.williams@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:30909 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932212AbWHRAOs (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:14:48 -0400 To: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20060817.162340.74748342.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Ar Iau, 2006-08-17 am 16:23 -0700, ysgrifennodd David Miller: > Nobody in their right mind puts a space in their network device name. It works fine. Been there done that. I'm probably not in my right mind but it causes no problems. Nor btw does UTF-8 naming which is handy if you want to name your devices in Japanese or Arabic... > All you "name purists", go rename the block device name that is used > for your root partition to something with a space in it Works fine. It doesn't work fine for non root volumes (except by label) because of the fstab format but root is ok ! Alan