From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mthode@mthode.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reject creation of netdev names with colons
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:46:02 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150221.214602.384556263249269746.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424219517-9386-1-git-send-email-mthode@mthode.org>
From: Matthew Thode <mthode@mthode.org>
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@mthode.org>
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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2015-02-18 0:31 Matthew Thode
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