Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] net: use dev->name in netdev_pr* when it's available

[Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 09:36:08AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 18:25 +0200, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 09:18:44AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> >On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 16:09 +0200, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
>> >> netdev_name() returns dev->name only when the net_device is in
>> >> NETREG_REGISTERED state.
>[]
>> >Maybe this should not be inline and become something like:
>>
>> It will miss the states then, when it's not NETREG_REGISTERED.
>
>If it's registered, it has a valid name via
>dev_get_valid_name() doesn't it?

Yes, I'm speaking about the NETREG_* states when it's not registered.

i.e.:

Jul 17 13:35:29 darkmag kernel: [  602.686489] bond2 (unregistering): Released all slaves

that's with my patchset, when the bond device is unregistering
(NETREG_UNREGISTERING). With your patch it would be only "bond2: Released
all slaves".

As the most time the device is in the NETREG_REGISTERED state, there will
be no differencies in the output (with either my or your approach), however
in less-common states/codepaths it will also output its state, which might
be quite valuable when analyzing the logs.

>
>> >const char *netdev_name(const struct net_device *dev)
>> >{
>> >	if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED)
>> >		return dev->name;
>> >
>> >	if (!dev->name[0])
>> >		return "(unnamed net_device)";
>> >
>> >	if (!strchr(dev->name, '%'))
>> >		return "(unregistered net_device)";
>> >
>> >	return dev->name;
>> >}
>> >EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_name);
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