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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 <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jiri Pirko 2011-01-24 05:45:46 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent acd1130e87
commit 84c49d8c3e
1 changed files with 0 additions and 12 deletions
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drivers/net/veth.c
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@ -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;