Revert "net: core: dev_get_valid_name is now the same as dev_alloc_name_ns"
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 2 Jan 2018 16:45:07 +0000 (11:45 -0500)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 2 Jan 2018 16:50:12 +0000 (11:50 -0500)
commit55a5ec9b77106ffc05e8c40d7568432bf4696d7b
treeaa0e60df83b27127833b587908be370d6a27fe42
parent2758b3e3e630ba304fc4aca434d591e70e528298
Revert "net: core: dev_get_valid_name is now the same as dev_alloc_name_ns"

This reverts commit 87c320e51519a83c496ab7bfb4e96c8f9c001e89.

Changing the error return code in some situations turns out to
be harmful in practice.  In particular Michael Ellerman reports
that DHCP fails on his powerpc machines, and this revert gets
things working again.

Johannes Berg agrees that this revert is the best course of
action for now.

Fixes: 029b6d140550 ("Revert "net: core: maybe return -EEXIST in __dev_alloc_name"")
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/dev.c