On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 08:11, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Don't allow spaces in network device names because it makes > it difficult to provide text interfaces via sysfs. Personally I would at least avoid all chars <= ' ', because an interface name is meant to be displayed and these control chars do no good on a console nor in X. Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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