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/s390/net/netiucv.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/s390') diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c b/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c index b6a6356d09b3..3251333a23df 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c @@ -1994,8 +1994,6 @@ static struct net_device *netiucv_init_netdevice(char *username) netiucv_setup_netdevice); if (!dev) return NULL; - if (dev_alloc_name(dev, dev->name) < 0) - goto out_netdev; privptr = netdev_priv(dev); privptr->fsm = init_fsm("netiucvdev", dev_state_names, -- cgit v1.2.3