netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] veth: remove unneeded ifname code from veth

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Date:	Mon, 02 May 2011 15:55:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jpirko@...hat.com
Cc:	mirqus@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, xemul@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] veth: remove unneeded ifname code from
 veth_newlink()

From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:28:17 +0200

> Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:43:10AM CEST, mirqus@...il.com wrote:
>>2011/1/24 Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>:
>>> The code is not needed because tb[IFLA_IFNAME] is already
>>> processed in rtnl_newlink(). Remove this redundancy.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
>>
>>Hi. This patch broke creation of veth devices. Reverting it fixes the issue.
> 
> Sorry for troubles.
> 
> For net-next-2.6 this is fixed by:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/93498/
> 
> For net-2.6 I suggest to revert this patch:
> 
> Subject: [PATCH net-2.6] Revert: veth: remove unneeded ifname code from veth_newlink()
> 
> 84c49d8c3e4abefb0a41a77b25aa37ebe8d6b743 caused regression on veth
> creation. This patch reverts the original one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>

Applied, with "Reported-by: " added to give credit to Micha┅ Miros┅aw.
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