Revert "don't allow "" for device name"

Use Patrick's instead

This reverts commit ba371d989038e0dda803528c194e12e5177f7008.

diff --git a/ip/iplink.c b/ip/iplink.c
index 82275b4e19646c7c6fc1d290b2e53de2aa0a1e6f..4060845cc8b78596504b68d33c87c7466396c504 100644 (file)
--- a/ip/iplink.c
+++ b/ip/iplink.c
@@ -336,8 +336,6 @@ static int iplink_modify(int cmd, unsigned int flags, int argc, char **argv)
 
        if (name) {
                len = strlen(name) + 1;
-               if (len == 1)
-                       invarg("null string is not valid name\n");
                if (len > IFNAMSIZ)
                        invarg("\"name\" too long\n", *argv);
                addattr_l(&req.n, sizeof(req), IFLA_IFNAME, name, len);