Commit 88041b79 authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by Jeff Garzik

[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: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
parent 5ac36615
...@@ -3035,15 +3035,6 @@ int register_netdev(struct net_device *dev) ...@@ -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();
......
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