From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:49:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060815214914.GA5307@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060815140249.15472a82@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>
Stephen Hemminger (shemminger@osdl.org) said:
> > 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 '/'.
> >
>
> The names "." and ".." are also verboten.
Right. Well, I suspect they're verboten-because-some-code-breaks-making-the-directory.
> Names with : in them are for IP aliases.
That's certainly not enforced at the kernel level.
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-15 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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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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
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