vppinfra: change vlib_register_node so it takes format string for node name

This allows specifying both c string and vector for node name
and removes need for crafting temporary string.

Type: improvement
Change-Id: I0b016cd70aeda0f68eb6f9171c5152f303be7369
Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/plugins/hs_apps/http_cli.c b/src/plugins/hs_apps/http_cli.c
index a4698c52caf..fec1427994c 100644
--- a/src/plugins/hs_apps/http_cli.c
+++ b/src/plugins/hs_apps/http_cli.c
@@ -262,7 +262,6 @@ alloc_cli_process (hcs_cli_args_t *args)
   vlib_main_t *vm = hcm->vlib_main;
   hcs_cli_args_t **save_args;
   vlib_node_t *n;
-  char *name;
   uword l;
 
   l = vec_len (hcm->free_http_cli_process_node_indices);
@@ -281,10 +280,7 @@ alloc_cli_process (hcs_cli_args_t *args)
 	.runtime_data_bytes = sizeof (void *),
       };
 
-      name = (char *) format (0, "http-cli-%d", l);
-      r.name = name;
-      vlib_register_node (vm, &r);
-      vec_free (name);
+      vlib_register_node (vm, &r, "http-cli-%d", l);
 
       n = vlib_get_node (vm, r.index);
     }
diff --git a/src/plugins/nat/pnat/tests/pnat_test.c b/src/plugins/nat/pnat/tests/pnat_test.c
index e7d946941b9..f6579dc5ca9 100644
--- a/src/plugins/nat/pnat/tests/pnat_test.c
+++ b/src/plugins/nat/pnat/tests/pnat_test.c
@@ -569,7 +569,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
 
     ip_checksum_init(vm);
 
-    u32 node_index = vlib_register_node(vm, &pnat_input_node);
+    u32 node_index =
+        vlib_register_node(vm, &pnat_input_node, "%s", pnat_input_node.name);
     node = vlib_node_get_runtime(vm, node_index);
     assert(node);