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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: don't allow register_netdev with blank name
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:46:18 -0500 (EST)
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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.