dev_valid_name(9)

dev_valid_name9

Check if name is okay for network device

Usage

bool dev_valid_name(const char * name);

Arguments

name

name string

Overview

Network device names need to be valid file names to to allow sysfs to work. We also disallow any kind of whitespace.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.