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

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Aug 18 2006 - 02:34:00 EST


From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
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 <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>

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