From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/hyperv: Advertise hv_netvsc instead of netvsc as driver name
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:49:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120307204946.GA4413@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120307201746.GA20900@aepfle.de>
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:17:46PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
>
>
> > @@ -482,7 +484,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(vmbus, id_table);
> >
> > /* The one and only one */
> > static struct hv_driver netvsc_drv = {
> > - .name = "netvsc",
> > + .name = MODULE_NAME,
>
> It would be nice if this could be applied to 3.3.
> hv_storvsc and hid-hyperv already use the same naming, this patch was
> send last year already but was not applied for some reason.
What userspace tools depend on this that requires it to be in 3.3?
greg k-h
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/hyperv: Advertise hv_netvsc instead of netvsc as driver name
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:49:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120307204946.GA4413@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120307201746.GA20900@aepfle.de>
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:17:46PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
>
>
> > @@ -482,7 +484,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(vmbus, id_table);
> >
> > /* The one and only one */
> > static struct hv_driver netvsc_drv = {
> > - .name = "netvsc",
> > + .name = MODULE_NAME,
>
> It would be nice if this could be applied to 3.3.
> hv_storvsc and hid-hyperv already use the same naming, this patch was
> send last year already but was not applied for some reason.
What userspace tools depend on this that requires it to be in 3.3?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-07 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-07 19:05 [PATCH] net/hyperv: Advertise hv_netvsc instead of netvsc as driver name Haiyang Zhang
2012-03-07 19:22 ` Greg KH
2012-03-07 19:22 ` Greg KH
2012-03-07 19:57 ` Haiyang Zhang
2012-03-07 20:17 ` Olaf Hering
2012-03-07 20:49 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-03-07 20:49 ` Greg KH
2012-03-08 6:16 ` Olaf Hering
2012-03-08 15:52 ` Greg KH
2012-03-08 15:52 ` Greg KH
2012-03-08 16:12 ` Olaf Hering
2012-03-08 17:42 ` Greg KH
2012-03-08 18:38 ` Olaf Hering
2012-03-08 18:45 ` Greg KH
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