From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mjt@tls.msk.ru
Cc: matvejchikov@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: A little dev_valid_name() improvement
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:17:51 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090118.181751.187711018.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <497390FE.4050909@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:28:46 +0300
> Matvejchikov Ilya wrote:
> > This patch removes redundant complexity when checking the
> > network device name to be valid.
>
> And also disallows any name starting with a dot, while
> previously it was allowed/valid.
>
> I don't think this patch is good.
Agreed, I'm not applying this.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-19 2:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-18 19:07 [PATCH] net: A little dev_valid_name() improvement Matvejchikov Ilya
2009-01-18 20:28 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-01-19 2:17 ` David Miller [this message]
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