netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/hyperv: Advertise hv_netvsc instead of netvsc as driver name

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Date:	Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:49:46 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/hyperv: Advertise hv_netvsc instead of netvsc as
 driver name

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:17:46PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> 
> 
> > @@ -482,7 +484,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(vmbus, id_table);
> >  
> >  /* The one and only one */
> >  static struct  hv_driver netvsc_drv = {
> > -	.name = "netvsc",
> > +	.name = MODULE_NAME,
> 
> It would be nice if this could be applied to 3.3.
> hv_storvsc and hid-hyperv already use the same naming, this patch was
> send last year already but was not applied for some reason.

What userspace tools depend on this that requires it to be in 3.3?

greg k-h
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