netdev - Re: [RFC 5/7] bnx2: use netdev

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Message-ID: <1308681766.2743.69.camel@bwh-desktop>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:42:46 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 5/7] bnx2: use netdev_irqname

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 11:17 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:11:51 +0100
> Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 10:05 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > 
> > > Also increase size of irq name to account for longer device names.
> > > Original code was broken for full size names.
> > [...]
> > 
> > We should define a macro for the maximum netdev IRQ name length.  I
> > think this would be IFNAMSIZ + 1 + 2 + 1 + 5 (2 characters for queue
> > type; up to 5 digits for 16-bit queue index).
> > 
> > Ben.
> > 
> 
> Probably should put it in the queue structures?

Not really, given an IRQ can be related to multiple queues.

Ben.

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