netdev - [PATCH v2] net: fix register

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Message-ID: <20241006175718.17889-3-insafonov@gmail.com>
Date: Sun,  6 Oct 2024 20:57:20 +0300
From: Ivan Safonov <insafonov@...il.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>, Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ivan Safonov <insafonov@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] net: fix register_netdev description

register_netdev() does not expands the device name.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Safonov <insafonov@...il.com>
---
v2: Remove excessive blank line

 net/core/dev.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index cd479f5f22f6..861dbd6e46e8 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -10611,9 +10611,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_dummy_netdev);
  *	chain. 0 is returned on success. A negative errno code is returned
  *	on a failure to set up the device, or if the name is a duplicate.
  *
- *	This is a wrapper around register_netdevice that takes the rtnl semaphore
- *	and expands the device name if you passed a format string to
- *	alloc_netdev.
+ *	This is a wrapper around register_netdevice that takes
+ *	the rtnl semaphore.
  */
 int register_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
 {
-- 
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