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| author | Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> | 2011-06-02 17:28:37 -0300 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2011-06-03 14:22:06 -0400 |
| commit | 59e7e7078d6c2c6294caf454c6e3695f9d3e46a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 6ef8de26cd28e6ac4fff34258300889ef989e98c /net | |
| parent | 6f213ff1919fab6f8244ceae55631b5d6ef750a7 (diff) | |
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mac80211: call dev_alloc_name before copying name to sdata
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>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 49d4f869e0bc..dee30aea9ab3 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)); |