>> I think I would prefer that attempting to set a description that >> equals an interface name is rejected, and, [...] > Couldn't you just enforce the description to not match > /[a-z]+[0-9]+/?
Well, according to scan.l in the usr.bin/config I have at ready hand, it's [A-Za-z_][-A-Za-z_0-9]* (with [0-9]+ implicitly appended). That seems unnecessarily limiting to me. It also is brittle to embed that pattern in places as widely separated as usr.bin/config and the kernel; sooner or later someone will change one of them without updating the other. But, as always, if that's what the person actually doing the work implements.... /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
