Re: [PATCH net] Revert "net: core: maybe return -EEXIST in __dev_alloc_name"

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Sat,  2 Dec 2017 08:41:55 +0100

From: Johannes Berg <redacted>

This reverts commit d6f295e9def0; 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 <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <redacted>

Applied.