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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6] net: call dev_alloc_name from
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From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:21:32 +0200

> Force dev_alloc_name() to be called from register_netdevice() by
> dev_get_valid_name(). That allows to remove multiple explicit
> dev_alloc_name() calls.
> 
> The possibility to call dev_alloc_name in advance remains.
> 
> This also fixes veth creation regresion caused by
> 84c49d8c3e4abefb0a41a77b25aa37ebe8d6b743
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>

I like this change, and if some real legitimate hole is found
in it we can either quickly fix that or revert this simply.

Applied, thanks.