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 --- net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/ip_gre.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c index 10e9b5aea070..8871067560db 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c @@ -413,11 +413,6 @@ static struct ip_tunnel *ipgre_tunnel_locate(struct net *net, dev_net_set(dev, net); - if (strchr(name, '%')) { - if (dev_alloc_name(dev, name) < 0) - goto failed_free; - } - nt = netdev_priv(dev); nt->parms = *parms; dev->rtnl_link_ops = &ipgre_link_ops; -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522