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Message-ID: <6db5b691-a1cb-4f74-bb0d-6b48a1678c65@lunn.ch> Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 14:24:48 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com> Cc: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 03/13] Documentation: leds: leds-class: Document new Hardware driven LEDs APIs On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 10:09:28AM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > On 5/29/23 21:09, Christian Marangi wrote: > > Just to clarify, a device name can't be returned. Not every device have > > a name and such name can be changed. An example is network device where > > you can change the name of the interface. > > > > Using the device prevents all of this problem. > > > > Oh, I guess it was /dev/something. Network devices don't appear in /dev. At least not in Linux. Some other Unix implementations do, i think SunOS used to have an entry in /dev, but i could be remembering wrongly. But within the kernel, you generally don't refer to a device by its /dev/foo name. That is a user space abstraction. In the kernel, each device in the system has a struct device representing it. Andrew
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