Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices

[Bill Nottingham]

Mitch Williams (mitch.a.williams@xxxxxxxxx) said: 
> Are spaces allowed in interface names anyway?  I can't believe that
> bonding is the only area affected by this.

They're certainly allowed, and the sysfs directory structure, files,
etc. handle it ok. Userspace tends to break in a variety of ways.

I believe the only invalid character in an interface name is '/'.

Bill
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