From: Rasmus Villemoes <li...@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.
