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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: restrict device names from having whitespace
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:36:44 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:11:27 -0700

> Don't allow spaces in network device names because it makes
> it difficult to provide text interfaces via sysfs.
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> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>

I have a patch which does this in my tree already Stephen.