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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/7] netdev: add standardized irq naming function
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:56:18 -0700
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:48:55 +0100
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:

> 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 namin=
g
> > > network device IRQ's, provide a standardized method for creating
> > > the name.
> >=20
> > Can this be modified to track netdev renames?
>=20
> We should handle renames somehow.
>=20
> 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 f=
or
> every device.
>=20
> Ben.
>=20

Since renames are only allowed when netdevice is down.
Renames do not need to be tracked if device registers irq in open
handler.