Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices

[Stephen Hemminger]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> David Miller (davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: 
>   
> > From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@xxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:29:43 +0200
> >
> >     
> > > Why not simply retricting chars to isalnum() ones ?
> > >       
> > As Bill said that would block things like "-" and "_" which are fine.
> >
> > Bill also mentioned something about "breaking configs going back to
> > 2.4.x" which is bogus because nothing broke when we started blocking
> > "/" and "." and ".." in networking device names during the addition of
> > sysfs support for net devices.
> >     
>
> I was mainly referring to if we started to filter it out to isalnum() -
> spaces/tab/CR etc. certainly could be filtered. (No idea what would
> happen with unicode nbsp or other silly things.)
>
> Bill
>   
How just restrictiting to !isspace()

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