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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] net: core: devname allocation cleanups
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From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 00:15:03 +0100

> It's somewhat confusing to have both dev_alloc_name and
> dev_get_valid_name. I can't see why the former is less strict than the
> latter, so make them (or rather dev_alloc_name_ns and
> dev_get_valid_name) equivalent, hardening dev_alloc_name() a little.
>
> Obvious follow-up patches would be to only export one function, and
> make dev_alloc_name a static inline wrapper for that (whichever name
> is chosen for the exported interface). But maybe there is a good
> reason the two exported interfaces do different checking, so I'll
> refrain from including the trivial but tree-wide renaming in this
> series.

Series applied, thanks.

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