From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751889AbbBVCqJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:46:09 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:36649 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751656AbbBVCqH (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:46:07 -0500 Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:46:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20150221.214602.384556263249269746.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 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1424219517-9386-1-git-send-email-mthode@mthode.org> References: <1424219517-9386-1-git-send-email-mthode@mthode.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.6 on Emacs 24.4 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.7 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Sat, 21 Feb 2015 18:46:06 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Matthew Thode 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 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..."