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Revert "net: core: dev_get_valid_name is now the same as dev_alloc_name_ns"
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 2 Jan 2018 16:45:07 +0000 (11:45 -0500)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 2 Jan 2018 16:50:12 +0000 (11:50 -0500)
commitb8fce370ac390bf7b3d3530603bb8db06f8ad779
treeaa0e60df83b27127833b587908be370d6a27fe42
parent42775d07989c6005a381195d6dd8343ae3bdb6b1
Revert "net: core: dev_get_valid_name is now the same as dev_alloc_name_ns"

This reverts commit 6a10ee6af7da3f77541c324de651a81e25697ea5.

Changing the error return code in some situations turns out to
be harmful in practice.  In particular Michael Ellerman reports
that DHCP fails on his powerpc machines, and this revert gets
things working again.

Johannes Berg agrees that this revert is the best course of
action for now.

Fixes: 18cf94e5c678 ("Revert "net: core: maybe return -EEXIST in __dev_alloc_name"")
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/dev.c