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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: A little dev_valid_name() improvement
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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.