netdev - Re: [PATCH net] Revert "hv_netvsc: report vmbus name in ethtool"

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Date:   Sat, 29 Oct 2016 15:04:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, vkuznets@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] Revert "hv_netvsc: report vmbus name in ethtool"

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:27:53 -0700

> From: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
> 
> This reverts commit e3f74b841d48
> ("hv_netvsc: report vmbus name in ethtool")'
> because of problem introduced by commit f9a56e5d6a0ba
> ("Drivers: hv: make VMBus bus ids persistent").
> This changed the format of the vmbus name and this new format is too
> long to fit in the bus_info field of ethtool.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>

Applied.