On 2013-01-18, Alexander Motin wrote:
> > AM> > V>  panic: make_dev_alias_v: bad si_name (error=22 
> > si_name=enc@n5003048000bab37d/tpe0/slot@1/elmdesc@Slot 01/pass7)

> > AM> The panic is triggered by the check added by the recent r244584 change.
> > AM> The space in device name came from the enclosure device, and I guess it
> > AM> may be quite often situation. Using human readable name supposed to help
> > AM> system administrators, but with spaces banned that may be a problem.
> > 
> > That's was not created by human, it was generated (I think so) by system. 
> 
> These strings are flashed into enclosure firmware by manufacturer.

You can't rely on that any string can be safely used as a device name
even if spaces were allowed. Consider for example duplicate names and
"../".

Where these names are generated? The original report didn't contain a
backtrace.

-- 
Jaakko
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