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From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@elstempel.de>
Subject: Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices
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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:

> IMHO idiots who put space's in filenames should be ignored. As long as the
> bonding code doesn't throw a fatal error, it has every right to return
> "No such device" to the fool.

Maybe you should limit device names to eight uppercase characters and up to
three characters extension, too. NOT! There is no reason to artificially
impose limitations on device names, so don't do that.
-- 
Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.

http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html