netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: device name allocation cleanups

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Message-ID: <20091117090157.2a07bed5@nehalam>
Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:01:57 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: device name allocation cleanups

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:49:03 +0200
Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
> ---

You have merged the dev_alloc_name into all the registration paths.
Before it was possible for device to call register_netdevice with a name
with a % in it. Only if it did dev_alloc_name or register_netdev would
the %d be interpreted.

So this patch causes a change which may be visible in user space.

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