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Message-ID: <1405616296.12363.45.camel@joe-AO725>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:58:16 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] net: use dev->name in netdev_pr* when
it's available
On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 18:38 +0200, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 09:36:08AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> >On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 18:25 +0200, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 09:18:44AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> >> >On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 16:09 +0200, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
> >> >> netdev_name() returns dev->name only when the net_device is in
> >> >> NETREG_REGISTERED state.
> >[]
> >> >Maybe this should not be inline and become something like:
> >>
> >> It will miss the states then, when it's not NETREG_REGISTERED.
> >
> >If it's registered, it has a valid name via
> >dev_get_valid_name() doesn't it?
>
> Yes, I'm speaking about the NETREG_* states when it's not registered.
>
> i.e.:
>
> Jul 17 13:35:29 darkmag kernel: [ 602.686489] bond2 (unregistering): Released all slaves
OK, I hadn't read the patch where netdev_reg_state was emitted.
Still, it's probably smaller overall code to uninline it now.
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