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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/mwifiex | |
| 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/mwifiex')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c index c5971880e7b3..d16cea770fa3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c @@ -706,10 +706,6 @@ static struct mwifiex_private *mwifiex_add_interface( dev_err(adapter->dev, "no memory available for netdevice\n"); goto error; } - if (dev_alloc_name(dev, dev->name)) { - dev_err(adapter->dev, "unable to alloc name for netdevice\n"); - goto error; - } if (mwifiex_register_cfg80211(dev, adapter->priv[bss_index]->curr_addr, adapter->priv[bss_index]) != 0) { |