netdev - Re: [PATCH V2 net-next 20/21] net-next/hinic: Add ethtool and stats

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Date:   Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:59:00 +0300
From:   Aviad Krawczyk <aviad.krawczyk@...wei.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
CC:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <bc.y@...wei.com>, <victor.gissin@...wei.com>,
        <zhaochen6@...wei.com>, <tony.qu@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 net-next 20/21] net-next/hinic: Add ethtool and stats

Hi,

I saw that netif_err is more common in code, is it preferred on netdev_err?
What is the preferred style, netif_ or netdev_?

Best Regards,
Aviad

On 7/27/2017 1:33 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 03:36:28PM +0300, Aviad Krawczyk wrote:
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> I tried to be consistent with the comments before, that requested
>> that we will use dev_err exclude some special cases for use netif.
>>
>> We will replace the dev_err(&netdev->dev,.. to netdev_err in the
>> next fix.
> 
> netdev_err() should be used when possible. You just have to be careful
> in the probe() function, before netdev exists and you get "(NULL
> net_device):" or before it is registered and you get "(unnamed
> net_device)" instead of "eth42" etc.
> 
> 	      Andrew
> 
> .
>