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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/hamradio | |
| 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 'drivers/net/hamradio')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c index 8931168d3e74..18d8affecd1b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c +++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c @@ -516,10 +516,6 @@ static int bpq_new_device(struct net_device *edev) memcpy(bpq->dest_addr, bcast_addr, sizeof(bpq_eth_addr)); memcpy(bpq->acpt_addr, bcast_addr, sizeof(bpq_eth_addr)); - err = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name); - if (err < 0) - goto error; - err = register_netdevice(ndev); if (err) goto error; |