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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/mac80211 | |
| parent | e8920674979705392abc4db4ebbe78feb68a4da1 (diff) | |
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/mac80211')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/iface.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c index 4054399be907..80c29d626aa4 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c @@ -1144,10 +1144,6 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name, + IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_HEADROOM; ndev->needed_tailroom = IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_TAILROOM; - ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name); - if (ret < 0) - goto fail; - ieee80211_assign_perm_addr(local, ndev, type); memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, ndev->perm_addr, ETH_ALEN); SET_NETDEV_DEV(ndev, wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy)); |