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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/wireless/hostap | |
| 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/wireless/hostap')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_main.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_main.c index 1d9aed645723..d5084829c9e5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_main.c @@ -79,13 +79,8 @@ struct net_device * hostap_add_interface(struct local_info *local, if (!rtnl_locked) rtnl_lock(); - ret = 0; - if (strchr(dev->name, '%')) - ret = dev_alloc_name(dev, dev->name); - SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, mdev->dev.parent); - if (ret >= 0) - ret = register_netdevice(dev); + ret = register_netdevice(dev); if (!rtnl_locked) rtnl_unlock(); |