Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.X] SIOCSIFNAME wilcard suppor & name validation

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:21:12 -0800

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:22:04 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Here is an enhanced version of the previous patch.
> It adds both the wildcard support that Jean did, and validation of network
> device names.
> 
> It doesn't check the error return from class_device_rename because
> that will not fail unless object or name are null.

This is really cool, nice work guys.

Patch applied, thanks.