Re: [PATCH] net: restrict device names from having whitespace

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>

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