net: call dev_alloc_name from register_netdevice

Force dev_alloc_name() to be called from register_netdevice() by
dev_get_valid_name(). That allows to remove multiple explicit
dev_alloc_name() calls.

The possibility to call dev_alloc_name in advance remains.

This also fixes veth creation regresion caused by
84c49d8c3e4abefb0a41a77b25aa37ebe8d6b743

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/ieee802154/fakehard.c b/drivers/ieee802154/fakehard.c
index d9d0e13efe47..a5a49a1baae7 100644
--- a/drivers/ieee802154/fakehard.c
+++ b/drivers/ieee802154/fakehard.c
@@ -393,16 +393,6 @@ static int __devinit ieee802154fake_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
         priv = netdev_priv(dev);
         priv->phy = phy;
 
-        /*
-         * If the name is a format string the caller wants us to do a
-         * name allocation.
-         */
-        if (strchr(dev->name, '%')) {
-                err = dev_alloc_name(dev, dev->name);
-                if (err < 0)
-                        goto out;
-        }
-
         wpan_phy_set_dev(phy, &pdev->dev);
         SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &phy->dev);