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Message-ID: <1308678535.2743.27.camel@bwh-desktop>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:48:55 +0100
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To: Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/7] netdev: add standardized irq naming function
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 19:30 +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> 2011/6/21 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>:
> > To force driver developers to use a standard convention for naming
> > network device IRQ's, provide a standardized method for creating
> > the name.
>
> Can this be modified to track netdev renames?
We should handle renames somehow.
sfc currently uses a netdev notifier to update the names of its IRQs
(and MTDs) but it might make more sense to add something to
net_device_ops rather than having every driver receive notification for
every device.
Ben.
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