netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] caif_usb: Make the driver name check more efficient

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Message-ID: <1355054832.20838.71.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 9 Dec 2012 12:07:12 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	<sjur.brandeland@...ricsson.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] caif_usb: Make the driver name check more
 efficient

On Sun, 2012-12-09 at 00:34 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:20:27 +0000
> 
> > Use the device model to get just the name, rather than using the
> > ethtool API to get all driver information.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> > ---
> > Compile-tested only.  I'm assuming that the strncmp() is not really
> > necessary, but perhaps there is some OOT variant of cdc_ncm that is also
> > supposed to be supported?
> 
> Applied, I guess you found this while looking around for tests
> of ethtool_ops being NULL?

Yes.  These (bonding and caif_usb) weren't the only ones, though.

Ben.

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