From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shannon.nelson@intel.com
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, nhorman@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com,
jogreene@redhat.com, jacob.e.keller@intel.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 10/17] i40e: clean up PTP log messages
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 18:12:34 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150115.181234.1832448766968509279.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FC41C24E35F18A40888AACA1A36F3E418ADD4215@fmsmsx115.amr.corp.intel.com>
From: "Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:44:48 +0000
> Yes, the driver should print the unvarnished truth. What's
> frustrating about UDEV is that it ends up making the driver look
> like it is confused and/or lying in the log messages. We'd prefer
> to minimize this unnecessary user-confusion where possible.
The only way to resolve this is to have some kind of synchronized
event wherein when a device is instantiated we get userland to
assign the final name before the device has any visibility anywhere
(basically before register_netdevice() puts the device into the
hashes where it can be found).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-15 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-15 12:19 [net-next 00/17][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2015-01-15 Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 01/17] i40e/i40evf: AdminQ updates ww36 Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 02/17] i40e/i40evf: Increase ASQ timeout Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 03/17] i40e: fix proc/int descriptions Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 04/17] i40e: don't give up on DCB error after reset Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 05/17] i40e: Add define for interrupt name string len Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 06/17] i40e: Dump Stats string removed from debugfs help command Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 07/17] i40e/i40evf: Bump i40e/i40evf versions Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 08/17] i40e: only enable PTP interrupt cause if PTP is enabled Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 09/17] i40e: check I40E_FLAG_PTP before handling Tx or Rx timestamps Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 10/17] i40e: clean up PTP log messages Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:34 ` David Laight
2015-01-15 15:01 ` Nelson, Shannon
2015-01-15 20:38 ` David Miller
2015-01-15 22:44 ` Nelson, Shannon
2015-01-15 23:12 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 11/17] i40e: Issue "Stop LLDP" command for firmware older than v4.3 Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 12/17] i40e: add more struct size checks Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 13/17] i40e: AQ API updates for new commands Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 17:14 ` Or Gerlitz
2015-01-15 17:19 ` Nelson, Shannon
2015-01-15 18:04 ` Or Gerlitz
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 14/17] i40e: use same check for Rx hang as for Rx timestamps Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 15/17] i40e: when Rx timestamps disabled set specific mode Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 16/17] i40e: Support for NPAR iSCSI partition with DCB Jeff Kirsher
2015-01-15 17:11 ` Or Gerlitz
2015-01-15 12:19 ` [net-next 17/17] i40e/i40evf: Bump i40e and i40evf versions Jeff Kirsher
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