From: Jiri Pirko Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:45:46 +0000 (+0000) Subject: veth: remove unneeded ifname code from veth_newlink() X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=84c49d8c3e4abefb0a41a77b25aa37ebe8d6b743;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git veth: remove unneeded ifname code from veth_newlink() The code is not needed because tb[IFLA_IFNAME] is already processed in rtnl_newlink(). Remove this redundancy. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c index cc83fa71c3ff..105d7f0630cc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/veth.c +++ b/drivers/net/veth.c @@ -403,17 +403,6 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, if (tb[IFLA_ADDRESS] == NULL) random_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr); - if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME]) - nla_strlcpy(dev->name, tb[IFLA_IFNAME], IFNAMSIZ); - else - snprintf(dev->name, IFNAMSIZ, DRV_NAME "%%d"); - - if (strchr(dev->name, '%')) { - err = dev_alloc_name(dev, dev->name); - if (err < 0) - goto err_alloc_name; - } - err = register_netdevice(dev); if (err < 0) goto err_register_dev; @@ -433,7 +422,6 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, err_register_dev: /* nothing to do */ -err_alloc_name: err_configure_peer: unregister_netdevice(peer); return err;