From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: "Michał Mirosław" <mirqus@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/7] netdev: add standardized irq naming function
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:48:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1308678535.2743.27.camel@bwh-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=b89+C=-fnJuacKTKZXBYYouNK=w@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 19:30 +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> 2011/6/21 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>:
> > To force driver developers to use a standard convention for naming
> > network device IRQ's, provide a standardized method for creating
> > the name.
>
> Can this be modified to track netdev renames?
We should handle renames somehow.
sfc currently uses a netdev notifier to update the names of its IRQs
(and MTDs) but it might make more sense to add something to
net_device_ops rather than having every driver receive notification for
every device.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare
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They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-21 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-21 17:05 [RFC 0/7] network device irq naming Stephen Hemminger
2011-06-21 17:05 ` [RFC 1/7] netdev: add standardized irq naming function Stephen Hemminger
2011-06-21 17:30 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-06-21 17:48 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2011-06-21 17:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-06-21 18:07 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-06-21 17:05 ` [RFC 2/7] igb: use netdev_irqname Stephen Hemminger
2011-06-21 17:05 ` [RFC 3/7] ixgbe: " Stephen Hemminger
2011-06-21 17:05 ` [RFC 4/7] benet: use irq naming standard Stephen Hemminger
2011-06-21 17:05 ` [RFC 5/7] bnx2: use netdev_irqname Stephen Hemminger
2011-06-21 18:11 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-06-21 18:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-06-21 18:42 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-06-21 17:05 ` [RFC 6/7] niu: " Stephen Hemminger
2011-06-21 17:05 ` [RFC 7/7] netxen: " Stephen Hemminger
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