On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:09:58PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

Change to allow register_netdevice() to be called with a blank name.
If name is blank, it is not put in name hash list, and doesn't
show up in /sys or /proc

That sounds even better indeed!

Of course register_netdevice should grow a detailed explanation of
this behaviour in the kdoc comment.