From: Maksim Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: pcg@goof.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.13-ac5 && vtun not working
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 15:53:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011106155027.01d14ec0@mail1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011106.153231.39156880.davem@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011031095211.0dbc23f0@mail1> <20011031.003056.63128206.davem@redhat.com> <20011031104323.A2263@schmorp.de> <5.1.0.14.0.20011031095211.0dbc23f0@mail1>
> Here is the patch for TUN/TAP to remove that suboptimality :).
> So we won't call dev_alloc_name if name is not a template.
>
>This won't work. The whole purpose of calling dev_alloc_name is to twofold:
>
>1) Make sure the name string is unique
>
>2) Copy that name into dev->name if it is unique
>
>I'm going to change dev_alloc_name() to allow non-'%' names instead, that is a better fix.
Ok with me. I new that it's a dev.c bug from the beginning ;-)
Max
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-06 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-30 1:17 Lehmann
2001-10-30 1:39 ` Lehmann
2001-10-30 1:53 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-31 0:05 ` Lehmann
2001-10-31 17:55 ` Maksim Krasnyanskiy
2001-10-31 8:30 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-31 9:43 ` Lehmann
2001-11-06 23:32 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-06 23:53 ` Maksim Krasnyanskiy [this message]
2001-10-30 1:48 ` Maksim Krasnyanskiy
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