Commit 88041b79 authored Nov 17, 2006 by Stephen Hemminger Committed by Jeff Garzik Dec 02, 2006

[PATCH] netdev: don't allow register_netdev with blank name



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 <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

parent 5ac36615

net/core/dev.c

+0 −9

Original line number	Original line	Diff line number	Diff line
	@@ -3035,15 +3035,6 @@ int register_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
	goto out;		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);		err = register_netdevice(dev);
	out:		out:
	rtnl_unlock();		rtnl_unlock();