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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dev_alloc_name: fix kernel-doc formatting, typos, etc.
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:53:55 -0800
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:40:46 -0800
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:

> - *	Passed a format string - eg "lt%d" it will try and find a suitable
> + *	Passed a format string - e.g. "lt%%d", it will try to find a suitable

This is wrong.
The obvious case of:
  alloc_etherdev() ends up calling __dev_alloc_name with "eth%d"
in fact __dev_alloc_name called with "lt%%d" will return -EINVAL


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