dev_alloc_name() is not called explicitly in the driver code any more,
but it is done in register_netdevice(). This causes devices getting
wrong names like "wlan%d". With this patch they get names like wlan0
again.
Add to compat-3.0-stable
CC: Ignacy Gawedzki <i@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/compat-2.6.h | 1 +
include/linux/compat-3.0.h | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/linux/compat-3.0.h
diff --git a/include/linux/compat-2.6.h b/include/linux/compat-2.6.h
index 893a159..e4ca6aa 100644
--- a/include/linux/compat-2.6.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat-2.6.h
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
#include <linux/compat-2.6.37.h>
#include <linux/compat-2.6.38.h>
#include <linux/compat-2.6.39.h>
+#include <linux/compat-3.0.h>
#include <linux/compat-3.1.h>
#endif /* LINUX_26_COMPAT_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/compat-3.0.h b/include/linux/compat-3.0.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d05093
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/compat-3.0.h
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#ifndef LINUX_3_0_COMPAT_H
+#define LINUX_3_0_COMPAT_H
+
+#include <linux/version.h>
+
+#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,0,0))
+
+/*
+ * since commit 1c5cae815d19ffe02bdfda1260949ef2b1806171
+ * "net: call dev_alloc_name from register_netdevice" dev_alloc_name is
+ * called automatically. This is not implemented in older kernel
+ * versions so it will result in device wrong names.
+ */
+static inline int register_netdevice_name(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ int err;
+
+ if (strchr(dev->name, '%')) {
+ err = dev_alloc_name(dev, dev->name);
+ if (err < 0)
+ return err;
+ }
+
+ return register_netdevice(dev);
+}
+
+#define register_netdevice(dev) register_netdevice_name(dev)
+
+#endif /* (LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,0,0)) */
+
+#endif /* LINUX_3_0_COMPAT_H */
--
1.7.4.1
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