From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't create tunnels with '%' in name. Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:22:01 +0100 Message-ID: <47BD6CE9.7000908@trash.net> References: <47BD6907.7050303@openvz.org> <47BD6A28.1030007@trash.net> <47BD6BD7.1060200@openvz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , Linux Netdev List , devel@openvz.org To: Pavel Emelyanov Return-path: Received: from viefep18-int.chello.at ([213.46.255.22]:56349 "EHLO viefep19-int.chello.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753614AbYBUMWV (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:22:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47BD6BD7.1060200@openvz.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> It would be nicer to replace the entire hand-made name >> allocation to remove the 100 device limit. >> > > Actually, I thought the same, but fixing % in names looks like a > BUG-fix for 2.6.25, while removing the hand-made name allocation > looks like an enhancement for 2.6.26. No? Well, its so closely related that I guess it would still look like a bugfix :) But changing this in 2.6.26 is also fine of course, your patch just reminded me since I wanted to change this for a long time and repeatedly forgot about it again.