Re: 2.4.13-ac5 && vtun not working

Maksim Krasnyanskiy
2001-11-06T23:54:08Z

> Here is the patch for TUN/TAP to remove that suboptimality :).
> So we won't call dev_alloc_name if name is not a template.
>
>This won't work. The whole purpose of calling dev_alloc_name is to twofold:
>
>1) Make sure the name string is unique
>
>2) Copy that name into dev->name if it is unique
>
>I'm going to change dev_alloc_name() to allow non-'%' names instead, that is a better fix.
Ok with me. I new that it's a dev.c bug from the beginning ;-)

Max