From 1c5cae815d19ffe02bdfda1260949ef2b1806171 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Pirko Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:21:32 +0000 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/tun.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/tun.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c index 0636f7040325..74e94054ab1a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -1099,12 +1099,6 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr) tun_net_init(dev); - if (strchr(dev->name, '%')) { - err = dev_alloc_name(dev, dev->name); - if (err < 0) - goto err_free_sk; - } - dev->hw_features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST | TUN_USER_FEATURES; dev->features = dev->hw_features; -- cgit v1.2.3