commit 59e7e7078d6c2c6294caf454c6e3695f9d3e46a2
Author: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Date:   Thu Jun 2 17:28:37 2011 -0300

    mac80211: call dev_alloc_name before copying name to sdata
    
    This partially reverts 1c5cae815d19ffe02bdfda1260949ef2b1806171, because
    the netdev name is copied into sdata->name, which is used for debugging
    messages, for example. Otherwise, we get messages like this:
    
    wlan%d: authenticated
    
    Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
    Cc: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
    Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
    Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Index: linux-2.6-3.0.0/net/mac80211/iface.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-3.0.0.orig/net/mac80211/iface.c	2011-07-22 02:17:23.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6-3.0.0/net/mac80211/iface.c	2011-08-20 00:47:38.000000000 +0000
@@ -1149,6 +1149,10 @@
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto fail;
 
+	ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		goto fail;
+
 	ieee80211_assign_perm_addr(local, ndev, type);
 	memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, ndev->perm_addr, ETH_ALEN);
 	SET_NETDEV_DEV(ndev, wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy));