From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: device name allocation cleanups Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:01:57 -0800 Message-ID: <20091117090157.2a07bed5@nehalam> References: <200911171849.03870.opurdila@ixiacom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Octavian Purdila Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:35969 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752580AbZKQRCV (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:02:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200911171849.03870.opurdila@ixiacom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:49:03 +0200 Octavian Purdila wrote: > Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila > --- You have merged the dev_alloc_name into all the registration paths. Before it was possible for device to call register_netdevice with a name with a % in it. Only if it did dev_alloc_name or register_netdev would the %d be interpreted. So this patch causes a change which may be visible in user space. --