Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: core: Remove the dup_errno parameter in dev_prep_valid_name()

From: "Yajun Deng" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 01:55:00 +0000

June 18, 2024 at 10:48 PM, "Jakub Kicinski" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:17:43 +0800 Yajun Deng wrote:
> 
> > 
> > netdev_name_in_use() return -EEXIST makes more sense if it's not NULL.
> > 
> 
> netdev_name_in_use() returns bool.
> 

I should say the netdev_name_in_use() in dev_prep_valid_name() return -EEXIST. 

> > 
> > But dev_alloc_name() should keep the -ENFILE errno.
> > 
> 
> And it does.
> 
> I don't understand what problem you're trying to fix.
> 
> The code is fine as is.
>

This is not a fix. 

There are three callers to dev_prep_valid_name(), only dev_alloc_name() needs
to replace -EEXIST with -ENFILE. We shouldn't add an extra parameter for this,
because it's not necessary for the other callers.

If we do it in dev_alloc_name(), the other callers can save a parameter.