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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/2] Add mii_bus to ixgbe driver for dsa devs
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> Yes the current solution whereby we need to get a hold on the network
> device's struct device reference is not quite ideal, AFAIR, Andrew has
> had the same problem.

Yes, it is not nice, and there is a race with systemd renaming the
interfaces using its naming rules. We need a way to lookup an
interface based on a bus location, or similar, not by name.

	  Andrew