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

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:01:57 -0800

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:49:03 +0200
Octavian Purdila <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <[email-masked]>
> ---

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.

--