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Message-ID: <447ba1fe-b20b-4ed0-97bc-4137b2ccfb37@lunn.ch>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 14:31:54 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Anvesh Jain P <quic_ajainp@...cinc.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>,
Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
Andy Ren <andy.ren@...cruise.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Venkata Rao Kakani <quic_vkakani@...cinc.com>,
Vagdhan Kumar <quic_vagdhank@...cinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: export dev_change_name function
On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 04:51:01PM +0530, Anvesh Jain P wrote:
> export dev_change_name function to be used by other modules.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vagdhan Kumar <quic_vagdhank@...cinc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anvesh Jain P <quic_ajainp@...cinc.com>
It would be normal to include a user of the API when exposing an API.
What module needs to change the name of a device? At the moment, only
user space can do this via netlink or an IOCTL.
Andrew
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