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 v4] staging: rtl8723bs: Remove manual ifname allocation
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 07:38:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026100116-joylessly-icy-055d@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908115654.3406-1-nsvatoslav515@gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 02:56:54PM +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 v4:
> - Rebased onto latest staging-testing branch.
Still does not apply, can you rebase again?
thanks,
greg k-h
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2026-09-08 11:56 [PATCH v4] staging: rtl8723bs: Remove manual ifname allocation Svyatoslav Nikolenko
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