staging: brcm80211: remove brcmfmac interface name override
The brcmfmac had a module parameter which could be used to override
the name of the wireless net device name and it defaults to 'wlan'.
This is considered rather useless, because what is in a name.
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reviewed-by: Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c
index 643c9c2..9919fa5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c
@@ -82,9 +82,6 @@
/* Error bits */
module_param(brcmf_msg_level, int, 0);
-/* Network inteface name */
-char iface_name[IFNAMSIZ] = "wlan";
-module_param_string(iface_name, iface_name, IFNAMSIZ, 0);
static int brcmf_net2idx(struct brcmf_info *drvr_priv, struct net_device *net)
{
@@ -311,10 +308,11 @@
unregister_netdev(ifp->net);
free_netdev(ifp->net);
}
- /* Allocate etherdev, including space for private structure */
- ifp->net = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(drvr_priv));
+ /* Allocate netdev, including space for private structure */
+ ifp->net = alloc_netdev(sizeof(drvr_priv), "wlan%d",
+ ether_setup);
if (!ifp->net) {
- brcmf_dbg(ERROR, "OOM - alloc_etherdev\n");
+ brcmf_dbg(ERROR, "OOM - alloc_netdev\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;
}
if (ret == 0) {
@@ -1009,10 +1007,10 @@
brcmf_dbg(TRACE, "Enter\n");
- /* Allocate etherdev, including space for private structure */
- net = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(drvr_priv));
+ /* Allocate netdev, including space for private structure */
+ net = alloc_netdev(sizeof(drvr_priv), "wlan%d", ether_setup);
if (!net) {
- brcmf_dbg(ERROR, "OOM - alloc_etherdev\n");
+ brcmf_dbg(ERROR, "OOM - alloc_netdev\n");
goto fail;
}
@@ -1028,18 +1026,6 @@
*/
memcpy(netdev_priv(net), &drvr_priv, sizeof(drvr_priv));
- /* Set network interface name if it was provided as module parameter */
- if (iface_name[0]) {
- int len;
- char ch;
- strncpy(net->name, iface_name, IFNAMSIZ);
- net->name[IFNAMSIZ - 1] = 0;
- len = strlen(net->name);
- ch = net->name[len - 1];
- if ((ch > '9' || ch < '0') && (len < IFNAMSIZ - 2))
- strcat(net->name, "%d");
- }
-
if (brcmf_add_if(drvr_priv, 0, net, net->name, NULL, 0, 0) ==
BRCMF_BAD_IF)
goto fail;
