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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] Revert "net: core: maybe return -EEXIST in
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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 11:27:58 -0500 (EST)
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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.