A new helper to detect if a net device name is in use was added. Use it
here as the return reference from __dev_get_by_name was discarded.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
                if (!ifname_is_set) {
                        while (1) {
                                snprintf(ppp->dev->name, IFNAMSIZ, "ppp%i", ret);
-                               if (!__dev_get_by_name(ppp->ppp_net, ppp->dev->name))
+                               if (!netdev_name_in_use(ppp->ppp_net, ppp->dev->name))
                                        break;
                                unit_put(&pn->units_idr, ret);
                                ret = unit_get(&pn->units_idr, ppp, ret + 1);