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 09:58:16AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 18:38 +0200, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
>> 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
>
>OK, I hadn't read the patch where netdev_reg_state was emitted.
>
>Still, it's probably smaller overall code to uninline it now.

I don't really care about that, and it's used only in several non-inlined
functions anyway, so the difference would be minimal, if any. I can easily
re-spin it unlined, however I don't really see a point in doing so :).