Subject: Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices

From: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:35:08 +0200

David Miller wrote:
> From: Bodo Eggert <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:02:03 +0200
> 
>> Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>>> IMHO idiots who put space's in filenames should be ignored. As long as the
>>> bonding code doesn't throw a fatal error, it has every right to return
>>> "No such device" to the fool.
>> Maybe you should limit device names to eight uppercase characters and up to
>> three characters extension, too. NOT! There is no reason to artificially
>> impose limitations on device names, so don't do that.
> 
> Are you willing to work to add the special case code necessary to
> handle whitespace characters in the device name over all of the kernel
> code and also all of the userland tools too?

But if you don't handle spaces in userspace, you handle *, ?, [, ], $,
", ', \  in userspace? Should kernel disable also these (insane device
chars) chars?

ciao
	cate
> 
> No?  Great, I'm glad that's settled.