From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/hyperv: Advertise hv_netvsc instead of netvsc as driver name
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:12:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120308161221.GA31415@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120308155219.GC5907@kroah.com>
On Thu, Mar 08, Greg KH wrote:
> > hwinfo uses it to recognize a network interface (storage in case of
> > hv_storvsc).
>
> That tool should report the real module name, not rely on the name to
> match based on the structure, if you really care about the real module
> name.
Its about the driver symlink, not the module name.
I think most, if not all, (relevant) drivers use some sort of
KBUILD_MODNAME. Why should this driver be any different?
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-08 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-07 19:05 [PATCH] net/hyperv: Advertise hv_netvsc instead of netvsc as driver name Haiyang Zhang
2012-03-07 19:22 ` Greg KH
2012-03-07 19:57 ` Haiyang Zhang
2012-03-07 20:17 ` Olaf Hering
2012-03-07 20:49 ` Greg KH
2012-03-08 6:16 ` Olaf Hering
2012-03-08 15:52 ` Greg KH
2012-03-08 16:12 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2012-03-08 17:42 ` Greg KH
2012-03-08 18:38 ` Olaf Hering
2012-03-08 18:45 ` Greg KH
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