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| author | Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> | 2011-04-30 01:21:32 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-05-05 10:57:45 -0700 |
| commit | 1c5cae815d19ffe02bdfda1260949ef2b1806171 (patch) | |
| tree | d47a73c05afacd21985abb8df9862136385c58f0 /net/core/rtnetlink.c | |
| parent | e8920674979705392abc4db4ebbe78feb68a4da1 (diff) | |
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net: call dev_alloc_name from register_netdevice
Force dev_alloc_name() to be called from register_netdevice() by
dev_get_valid_name(). That allows to remove multiple explicit
dev_alloc_name() calls.
The possibility to call dev_alloc_name in advance remains.
This also fixes veth creation regresion caused by
84c49d8c3e4abefb0a41a77b25aa37ebe8d6b743
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/rtnetlink.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/rtnetlink.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 29633125..5a160f4 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -1572,12 +1572,6 @@ struct net_device *rtnl_create_link(struct net *src_net, struct net *net, dev->rtnl_link_state = RTNL_LINK_INITIALIZING; dev->real_num_tx_queues = real_num_queues; - if (strchr(dev->name, '%')) { - err = dev_alloc_name(dev, dev->name); - if (err < 0) - goto err_free; - } - if (tb[IFLA_MTU]) dev->mtu = nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_MTU]); if (tb[IFLA_ADDRESS]) @@ -1597,8 +1591,6 @@ struct net_device *rtnl_create_link(struct net *src_net, struct net *net, return dev; -err_free: - free_netdev(dev); err: return ERR_PTR(err); } |