Re: [PATCH 2.6.X] SIOCSIFNAME wilcard suppor & name validation

From: David S. Miller
Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 19:31:36 EST


On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:22:04 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here is an enhanced version of the previous patch.
> It adds both the wildcard support that Jean did, and validation of network
> device names.
>
> It doesn't check the error return from class_device_rename because
> that will not fail unless object or name are null.

This is really cool, nice work guys.

Patch applied, thanks.
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