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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 /drivers/net/tun.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 'drivers/net/tun.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/tun.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c index 0636f7040325..74e94054ab1a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -1099,12 +1099,6 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr) tun_net_init(dev); - if (strchr(dev->name, '%')) { - err = dev_alloc_name(dev, dev->name); - if (err < 0) - goto err_free_sk; - } - dev->hw_features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST | TUN_USER_FEATURES; dev->features = dev->hw_features; |
