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

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:36:44 -0700 (PDT)

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
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-masked]>

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