e...@math.uni-bonn.de (Edgar =?iso-8859-1?B?RnXf?=) writes: >Or is there an argument that descriptions ought to be able to look like names?
These are not really descriptions but aliases and people like to use them as such. If you allow arbitrary strings (even with special characters, whitespace or Unicode) then you need to adapt the syntax of configuration files that include interface names. It's easier to restrict such aliases to common identifiers as this is what parsers expect. IMHO such functionality doesn't belong into the kernel, it's much easier to have a configuration syntax with variables or macros to achieve hte same. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."