netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 15/19] ionic: Add netdev-event handling

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Date:   Thu, 25 Jul 2019 23:55:21 +0000
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
To:     "snelson@...sando.io" <snelson@...sando.io>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 15/19] ionic: Add netdev-event handling

On Mon, 2019-07-22 at 14:40 -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote:
> When the netdev gets a new name from userland, pass that name
> down to the NIC for internal tracking.
> 

Just out of curiosity, why your NIC internal device/firmware need to
keep tracking of the netdev name ?