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 netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html