[libvirt] [PATCH v3] dots should be valid characters in interface names

[Chris Lalancette]

On 05/20/2010 01:06 AM, Charles Duffy wrote:
> On 05/19/2010 11:54 PM, Charles Duffy wrote:
>> A revised patch is attached. This lifts its logic from its kernel
>> counterpart, and is updated only to permit forward slashes (which, while
>> disallowed for interface names with the kernel, are required for
>> *device* names -- for which the ESX driver happens to overload this
>> field. Ugh).

Hm.  You know, I'm wondering if we should have "isValidIfname" at all in
domain_conf.c.  The thing is that if you think about different platforms
that this could be running on (Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc), and the
number of different drivers that go through here (Qemu, Xen, ESX, Virtualbox,
Phyp, openvz, ONE, UML), it seems like we have to allow everything to
cover all bases.  Indeed, there is very little else in domain_conf.c that
does validity checking, probably for just this reason.

Charles, Laine, what do you think about just removing this check completely?

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Chris Lalancette