netdev - Re: [PATCH net] i40e: Prevent unwanted interface name changes

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Message-ID: <089ba88e-e19d-40eb-844d-541d39e648e8@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:41:42 +0200
From: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>
To: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>, Calvin Owens <calvin@...nvd.org>
CC: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
	"Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller"
	<davem@...emloft.net>, "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
	<kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jedrzej Jagielski
	<jedrzej.jagielski@...el.com>, "Ivan Vecera" <ivecera@...hat.com>,
	<intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] i40e: Prevent unwanted interface name changes

On 8/20/25 08:42, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM Calvin Owens <calvin@...nvd.org> wrote:
>> The same naming regression which was reported in ixgbe and fixed in
>> commit e67a0bc3ed4f ("ixgbe: prevent from unwanted interface name
>> changes") still exists in i40e.
>>
>> Fix i40e by setting the same flag, added in commit c5ec7f49b480
>> ("devlink: let driver opt out of automatic phys_port_name generation").
>>
>> Fixes: 9e479d64dc58 ("i40e: Add initial devlink support")
> 
> But this one's almost two years old. By now, there may be more users
> relying on the new name than on the old one.
> Michal
> 

And, more importantly, noone was complaining on the new name ;)