From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: drozdziak1@gmail.com (Stan Drozd)
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:31:29 +0200
Subject: My network device don't work
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 02:32:31PM +0200, wiktoria.lewicka wrote:
> Hello.
> I write simple network device, but its don't work. Module is loading, loading, loading...
> Code:
> [...]
Hello,
"strncpy(my_netdev.name, DEV_NAME, 5)" only copies the 5 chars in "chwdp" without the null byte. You could bump it to 6
or maybe change 5 to IFNAMSIZ (the net_device.name's size) and then change the last byte to '\0' manually