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

From: Xavier Bestel <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:17:26 +0200

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