From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@osdl.org
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: don't allow register_netdev with blank name
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:46:18 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061120.184618.48512591.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061117134158.3d3f1508@freekitty>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:41:58 -0800
> 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>
Applied, thanks Stephen.
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2006-11-17 21:41 [PATCH] netdev: don't allow register_netdev with blank name Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-20 23:46 ` David Miller [this message]
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