This bit of old backwards compatibility cruft can be removed in 2.6.20.
If there is still an device that calls register_netdev()
with a zero or blank name, it will get -EINVAL from register_netdevice().
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>