From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Tong Zhang <ztong0001@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Colin Ian King <colin.king@intel.com>,
Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@gmail.com>,
Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: fix rmmod warn when wlan0 is renamed
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 14:39:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220718113915.GB2338@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220717070204.705878-1-ztong0001@gmail.com>
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 12:01:57AM -0700, Tong Zhang wrote:
> There are 4 debug files created under /proc/net/[Devname]. Devname could
> be wlan0 initially, however it could be renamed later to e.g. enx00e04c000002.
> This will cause problem during debug file teardown since it uses
> netdev->name which is no longer wlan0. To solve this problem, add a
> notifier to handle device renaming.
>
> Also, due to this is purely for debuging as files are created read only,
> move this to debugfs like other NIC drivers do instead of using procfs.
>
You're doing too many things in one patch. Maybe do it like this:
patch 1: Move the functions (no functional change).
patch 2: Change to debugfs instead of procfs
patch 3: Add the notifier
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-18 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-16 12:16 [BUG] staging: rtl8192u: Found a bug when removing the module Zheyu Ma
2022-07-17 7:01 ` Tong Zhang
2022-07-17 7:01 ` [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: fix rmmod warn when wlan0 is renamed Tong Zhang
2022-07-17 8:04 ` Zheyu Ma
2022-07-18 11:39 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2022-07-18 11:47 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-07-18 12:01 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-07-19 5:50 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Tong Zhang
2022-07-19 8:04 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-07-19 5:50 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] staging: rtl8192u: move debug stuff to its own file Tong Zhang
2022-07-19 5:50 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] staging: rtl8192u: move debug files to debugfs Tong Zhang
2022-07-19 12:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-20 4:58 ` Tong Zhang
2022-07-27 6:35 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-20 6:30 ` Tong Zhang
2022-07-27 6:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-29 3:51 ` Tong Zhang
2022-07-29 3:52 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] staging: rtl8192u: fix rmmod warn when device is renamed Tong Zhang
2022-07-29 3:52 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] staging: rtl8192u: move debug stuff to its own file Tong Zhang
2022-07-29 6:23 ` Philipp Hortmann
2022-07-30 3:35 ` Tong Zhang
2022-07-29 3:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] staging: rtl8192u: move debug files to debugfs Tong Zhang
2022-07-29 7:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-29 3:52 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] staging: rtl8192u: fix rmmod warn when device is renamed Tong Zhang
2022-07-29 7:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-30 3:33 ` Tong Zhang
2022-07-30 3:33 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] " Tong Zhang
2022-07-30 3:33 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] staging: rtl8192u: move debug stuff to its own file Tong Zhang
2022-07-30 3:33 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] staging: rtl8192u: remove unnecessary cast Tong Zhang
2022-07-30 3:33 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] staging: rtl8192u: move debug files to debugfs Tong Zhang
2022-07-30 3:33 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] staging: rtl8192u: fix rmmod warn when device is renamed Tong Zhang
2022-07-19 5:50 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] staging: rtl8192u: fix rmmod warn when wlan0 " Tong Zhang
2022-07-19 12:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-20 6:16 ` Tong Zhang
2022-07-19 5:52 ` [PATCH] " Tong Zhang
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