Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: core: export dev_alloc_name_ns

[David Miller]

From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 01:34:37 +0100

> dev_alloc_name_ns and dev_get_valid_name now do exactly the same
> thing. Let's expose this functionality as dev_alloc_name_ns
> (obviously, a core function like this won't return an invalid
> name...).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

If you're going to keep one of the routines, keep the one with
the simpler and smaller name, "dev_get_valid_name".