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| author |   Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> | 2006-11-17 13:41:58 -0800 |
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| committer |   Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> | 2006-12-02 00:16:37 -0500 |
| commit | 88041b79f864dcd7f95e1d594eba683244dd968a (patch) | |
| tree | dddb140e2f6e3526ba43630956e5f9e3e2187ea3 /net/core/dev.c | |
| parent | [PATCH] netxen: uses PCI (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-88041b79f864dcd7f95e1d594eba683244dd968a.tar.xz linux-dev-88041b79f864dcd7f95e1d594eba683244dd968a.zip | |
[PATCH] netdev: don't allow register_netdev with blank name
This bit of old backwards compatibility cruft can be removed in 2.6.20.
If there is still an device that calls register_netdev()
with a zero or blank name, it will get -EINVAL from register_netdevice().
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 81c426adcd1e..411c2428d268 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -3035,15 +3035,6 @@ int register_netdev(struct net_device *dev) goto out; } - /* - * Back compatibility hook. Kill this one in 2.5 - */ - if (dev->name[0] == 0 || dev->name[0] == ' ') { - err = dev_alloc_name(dev, "eth%d"); - if (err < 0) - goto out; - } - err = register_netdevice(dev); out: rtnl_unlock(); |