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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/ipv4/ip_gre.c | |
| parent | bnx2x: function descriptions format fixed (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-1c5cae815d19ffe02bdfda1260949ef2b1806171.tar.xz linux-dev-1c5cae815d19ffe02bdfda1260949ef2b1806171.zip | |
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/ipv4/ip_gre.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c index 10e9b5aea070..8871067560db 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c @@ -413,11 +413,6 @@ static struct ip_tunnel *ipgre_tunnel_locate(struct net *net, dev_net_set(dev, net); - if (strchr(name, '%')) { - if (dev_alloc_name(dev, name) < 0) - goto failed_free; - } - nt = netdev_priv(dev); nt->parms = *parms; dev->rtnl_link_ops = &ipgre_link_ops; |