From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Xavier Bestel Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: restrict device names from having whitespace Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:17:26 +0200 Message-ID: <1155885446.7566.15.camel@capoeira> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Return-path: 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 To: Stephen Hemminger In-Reply-To: <20060817231127.6438324e@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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