* [PATCH] mac80211: call dev_alloc_name before copying name to sdata
@ 2011-06-02 20:28 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
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From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo @ 2011-06-02 20:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-wireless
Cc: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Jiri Pirko, David S. Miller,
Johannes Berg, John W. Linville
This partially reverts 1c5cae815d19ffe02bdfda1260949ef2b1806171, because
the netdev name is copied into sdata->name, which is used for debugging
messages, for example. Otherwise, we get messages like this:
wlan%d: authenticated
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---
net/mac80211/iface.c | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 49d4f86..dee30ae 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -1145,6 +1145,10 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,
+ IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_HEADROOM;
ndev->needed_tailroom = IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_TAILROOM;
+ ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto fail;
+
ieee80211_assign_perm_addr(local, ndev, type);
memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, ndev->perm_addr, ETH_ALEN);
SET_NETDEV_DEV(ndev, wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy));
--
1.7.2.5
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