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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Svyatoslav Nikolenko <nsvatoslav515@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: rtl8723bs: Remove manual ifname allocation
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 18:21:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026090748-decree-version-df72@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260902105004.1935-1-nsvatoslav515@gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 01:50:03PM +0300, Svyatoslav Nikolenko wrote:
> The manual ifname allocation via dev_alloc_name() is redundant because
> the networking core handles interface naming automatically during
> register_netdev().
> 
> Remove the ifname module parameter, the corresponding field from
> struct registry_priv, and the rtw_init_netdev_name() callpath.
> 
> Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Svyatoslav Nikolenko <nsvatoslav515@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Added missing changelog.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Removed rtw_init_netdev_name() and the entire manual naming callpath 
>   instead of hardcoding "wlan%d", as suggested by Greg KH.

This does not apply against the latest staging-testing branch, can you
rebase and resend?

thanks,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-07 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-02 10:50 [PATCH v3] staging: rtl8723bs: Remove manual ifname allocation Svyatoslav Nikolenko
2026-09-02 11:40 ` Greg KH
2026-09-02 15:20   ` Svyatoslav Nikolenko
2026-09-07 16:21 ` Greg KH [this message]

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