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

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Message-ID: <d491b9e9-46c4-c7a6-4bf9-0274b2fb147b@pensando.io>
Date:   Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:53:12 -0700
From:   Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        "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 7/25/19 4:55 PM, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> 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 ?
>
>
It is helpful in a debugging method inside the NIC firmware.

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