netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: export dev_change

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Message-ID: <d88e4980-66e5-4ff2-a868-7f7450181925@lunn.ch>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 16:07:15 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Anvesh Jain P <quic_ajainp@...cinc.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>,
	Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Andy Ren <andy.ren@...cruise.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Venkata Rao Kakani <quic_vkakani@...cinc.com>,
	Vagdhan Kumar <quic_vagdhank@...cinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: export dev_change_name function

> CONFIG_RENAME_DEVICES is the module which needs "dev_change_name" API. Our
> requirement is to change the network device name from kernel space.

Can you give a link to this module. It is very unusual for the kernel
to change the device name. Before accepting this patch, we probably
want a better understanding of the big picture. Which is why we
normally to use the user of an API.

   Andrew