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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/7] netdev: add standardized irq naming function
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:48:55 +0100
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On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 19:30 +0200, Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw wrote:
> 2011/6/21 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>:
> > To force driver developers to use a standard convention for naming
> > network device IRQ's, provide a standardized method for creating
> > the name.
>=20
> Can this be modified to track netdev renames?

We should handle renames somehow.

sfc currently uses a netdev notifier to update the names of its IRQs
(and MTDs) but it might make more sense to add something to
net_device_ops rather than having every driver receive notification for
every device.

Ben.

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