From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, j@w1.fi, linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk,
johannes.berg@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] Revert "net: core: maybe return -EEXIST in __dev_alloc_name"
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 11:27:58 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171205.112758.2017556175799634368.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171202074155.29146-1-johannes@sipsolutions.net>
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 08:41:55 +0100
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
>
> This reverts commit d6f295e9def0; some userspace (in the case
> we noticed it's wpa_supplicant), is relying on the current
> error code to determine that a fixed name interface already
> exists.
>
> Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-05 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-02 7:41 [PATCH net] Revert "net: core: maybe return -EEXIST in __dev_alloc_name" Johannes Berg
2017-12-05 16:27 ` David Miller [this message]
2017-12-19 12:28 ` [net] " Michael Ellerman
2017-12-19 16:15 ` Johannes Berg
2017-12-20 23:37 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2017-12-22 4:22 ` Michael Ellerman
2018-01-02 16:50 ` David Miller
2018-01-02 16:52 ` Johannes Berg
2018-01-08 3:26 ` Michael Ellerman
2018-01-08 17:36 ` David Miller
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