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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 03/33] net: set name_assign_type in alloc_netdev()
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> wrote:
> Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> writes:
>
>> diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c
>> index 5dc638c..f405e05 100644
>> --- a/net/ethernet/eth.c
>> +++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c
>> @@ -390,7 +390,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ether_setup);
>> struct net_device *alloc_etherdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, unsigned int txqs,
>> unsigned int rxqs)
>> {
>> - return alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, "eth%d", ether_setup, txqs, rxqs);
>> + return alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, "eth%d", NET_NAME_UNKNOWN,
>> + ether_setup, txqs, rxqs);
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_etherdev_mqs);
>
> I believe this chunk makes the rest of this exercise pretty pointless.
>
> bjorn@nemi:/usr/local/src/git/linux$ git grep alloc_etherdev drivers/net/|wc -l
> 283
>
> I don't care enough to go look, but I'd be surprised if none of those
> drivers rename the device before registering it.

I did look for that, and I only found devices being renamed to the
same name assign type as eth%d (wlan%d, etc).

Cheers,

Tom
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