netdev - Re: [net-next 10/17] i40e: clean up PTP log messages

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Message-Id: <20150115.181234.1832448766968509279.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2015 18:12:34 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shannon.nelson@...el.com
Cc:	David.Laight@...LAB.COM, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
	jogreene@...hat.com, jacob.e.keller@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 10/17] i40e: clean up PTP log messages

From: "Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:44:48 +0000

> Yes, the driver should print the unvarnished truth.  What's
> frustrating about UDEV is that it ends up making the driver look
> like it is confused and/or lying in the log messages.  We'd prefer
> to minimize this unnecessary user-confusion where possible.

The only way to resolve this is to have some kind of synchronized
event wherein when a device is instantiated we get userland to
assign the final name before the device has any visibility anywhere
(basically before register_netdevice() puts the device into the
hashes where it can be found).
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