netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: socionext: ave: Avoid using netdev_err() before calling register

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Date:   Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:28:52 +0200 (CEST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hayashi.kunihiko@...ionext.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: socionext: ave: Avoid using netdev_err()
 before calling register_netdev()

From: Kunihiko Hayashi <hayashi.kunihiko@...ionext.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:35:10 +0900

> Until calling register_netdev(), ndev->dev_name isn't specified, and
> netdev_err() displays "(unnamed net_device)".
> 
>     ave 65000000.ethernet (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): invalid phy-mode setting
>     ave: probe of 65000000.ethernet failed with error -22
> 
> This replaces netdev_err() with dev_err() before calling register_netdev().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kunihiko Hayashi <hayashi.kunihiko@...ionext.com>

Applied.