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/ifb.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/ifb.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/ifb.c b/drivers/net/ifb.c index e07d487f015a..4fecaed67fc4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ifb.c +++ b/drivers/net/ifb.c @@ -233,10 +233,6 @@ static int __init ifb_init_one(int index) if (!dev_ifb) return -ENOMEM; - err = dev_alloc_name(dev_ifb, dev_ifb->name); - if (err < 0) - goto err; - dev_ifb->rtnl_link_ops = &ifb_link_ops; err = register_netdevice(dev_ifb); if (err < 0) -- cgit v1.2.3