From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:44:44 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Revert "don't allow "" for device name"
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-071016~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5058332f3cd751cb0aa4970a0892ebc4b791b748;p=thirdparty%2Fiproute2.git

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

Use Patrick's instead

This reverts commit ba371d989038e0dda803528c194e12e5177f7008.
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diff --git a/ip/iplink.c b/ip/iplink.c
index 82275b4e1..4060845cc 100644
--- 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);