Re: [RFC PATCH nft] src: add support for interface wildcard name

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On Tuesday 2013-10-15 16:23, Florian Westphal wrote:

> Caveats:
>  - I am not convinced '+' is a good idea -- it is ambiguous since
>  'foo+' is a legal interface name.
>  Maybe we should use 'foo/' (Linux forbids / in interface names) instead?

While there are almost no limitations on the interface name, there
is a limit to what characters are _useful_ to have in an interface
name. Picking foo+ was a sensible decision back then, and continues
to be, unless you want to go for the optically different 'foo*'.
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