Re: [PATCH] reject creation of netdev names with colons

[David Miller]

From: Matthew Thode <mthode@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:31:57 -0600

> colons are used as a separator in netdev device lookup in dev_ioctl.c
> 
> Specific functions are SIOCGIFTXQLEN SIOCETHTOOL SIOCSIFNAME
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Thode <mthode@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied thanks.

Please put a proper subsystem prefix in your Subject line
for future patches.  In this case an appropriate prefix
would have been "net: reject..."
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