[PATCH] netdev: don't allow register_netdev with blank name

This bit of old backwards compatibility cruft can be removed in 2.6.20.
If there is still an device that calls register_netdev()
with a zero or blank name, it will get -EINVAL from register_netdevice().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 81c426adcd..411c2428d2 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3035,15 +3035,6 @@ int register_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
                         goto out;
         }
         
-        /*
-         * Back compatibility hook. Kill this one in 2.5
-         */
-        if (dev->name[0] == 0 || dev->name[0] == ' ') {
-                err = dev_alloc_name(dev, "eth%d");
-                if (err < 0)
-                        goto out;
-        }
-
         err = register_netdevice(dev);
 out:
         rtnl_unlock();