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| author | Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> | 2011-04-30 05:21:32 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-05-05 21:57:45 +0400 |
| commit | 1c5cae815d19ffe02bdfda1260949ef2b1806171 (patch) | |
| tree | d47a73c05afacd21985abb8df9862136385c58f0 /drivers/s390 | |
| parent | e8920674979705392abc4db4ebbe78feb68a4da1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-1c5cae815d19ffe02bdfda1260949ef2b1806171.tar.xz | |
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/s390')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c b/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c index b6a6356d09b3..3251333a23df 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c @@ -1994,8 +1994,6 @@ static struct net_device *netiucv_init_netdevice(char *username) netiucv_setup_netdevice); if (!dev) return NULL; - if (dev_alloc_name(dev, dev->name) < 0) - goto out_netdev; privptr = netdev_priv(dev); privptr->fsm = init_fsm("netiucvdev", dev_state_names, |