This bit of old backwards compatibility cruft can be removed in 2.6.20.
If there is still an device that calls register_netdev()
with a zero or blank name, it will get -EINVAL from register_netdevice().
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- linux-2.6.19-rc6.orig/net/core/dev.c 2006-11-17 13:35:04.000000000
-0800
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc6/net/core/dev.c 2006-11-17 13:37:46.000000000 -0800
@@ -3035,15 +3035,6 @@
goto out;
}
- /*
- * Back compatibility hook. Kill this one in 2.5
- */
- if (dev->name[0] == 0 || dev->name[0] == ' ') {
- err = dev_alloc_name(dev, "eth%d");
- if (err < 0)
- goto out;
- }
-
err = register_netdevice(dev);
out:
rtnl_unlock();
-
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