Revert "net: core: maybe return -EEXIST in __dev_alloc_name"
This reverts commit d6f295e9; some userspace (in the case we noticed it's wpa_supplicant), is relying on the current error code to determine that a fixed name interface already exists. Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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