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Commit 1c5cae81 authored by Jiri Pirko's avatar Jiri Pirko Committed by David S. Miller
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net: call dev_alloc_name from register_netdevice



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
84c49d8c

Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent e8920674
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