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From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:45:55 -0400
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Mitch Williams (mitch.a.williams@intel.com) said: 
> Are spaces allowed in interface names anyway?  I can't believe that
> bonding is the only area affected by this.

They're certainly allowed, and the sysfs directory structure, files,
etc. handle it ok. Userspace tends to break in a variety of ways.

I believe the only invalid character in an interface name is '/'.

Bill