[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] netdev: Reject empty names in netdev_open().

[Andy Zhou]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> The empty string is not a valid name for a network device.  I would have
> expected that each of the netdev provider implementations would reject an
> empty string, but there was a special case for Linux tap devices where they
> instead caused unexpected behavior.  This commit should fix the problem for
> those devices and every other kind.
>
> Reported-by: Gabor Locsei <gabor.locsei at ericsson.com>
> Reported-at: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2017-February/043613.html
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>

Acked-by: Andy Zhou <azhou at ovn.org>