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authorThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>2011-06-02 22:28:37 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-06-03 20:22:06 +0200
commit59e7e7078d6c2c6294caf454c6e3695f9d3e46a2 (patch)
tree6ef8de26cd28e6ac4fff34258300889ef989e98c /net/mac80211
parentiwlagn: fix channel switch locking (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/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/iface.c4
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));