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>   Here is the patch for TUN/TAP to remove that suboptimality :). 
>   So we won't call dev_alloc_name if name is not a template.
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>This won't work.  The whole purpose of calling dev_alloc_name is to twofold:
>
>1) Make sure the name string is unique
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>2) Copy that name into dev->name if it is unique
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>I'm going to change dev_alloc_name() to allow non-'%' names instead, that is a better fix.
Ok with me. I new that it's a dev.c bug from the beginning ;-)

Max



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