From: David S. Miller Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 07:38:46 +0000 (+0900) Subject: Merge branch 'net-devname_alloc_cleanups' X-Git-Tag: v4.15-rc1~108^2~33 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f6b3716dcdcd1a4c3fa05ecb6ab0a1e52b6785d0;p=linux.git Merge branch 'net-devname_alloc_cleanups' Rasmus Villemoes says: ==================== net: core: devname allocation cleanups It's somewhat confusing to have both dev_alloc_name and dev_get_valid_name. I can't see why the former is less strict than the latter, so make them (or rather dev_alloc_name_ns and dev_get_valid_name) equivalent, hardening dev_alloc_name() a little. Obvious follow-up patches would be to only export one function, and make dev_alloc_name a static inline wrapper for that (whichever name is chosen for the exported interface). But maybe there is a good reason the two exported interfaces do different checking, so I'll refrain from including the trivial but tree-wide renaming in this series. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- f6b3716dcdcd1a4c3fa05ecb6ab0a1e52b6785d0