From 5058332f3cd751cb0aa4970a0892ebc4b791b748 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:44:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "don't allow "" for device name"

Use Patrick's instead

This reverts commit ba371d989038e0dda803528c194e12e5177f7008.
---
 ip/iplink.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ip/iplink.c b/ip/iplink.c
index 82275b4e..4060845c 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);