Re: [rfc] Remove member .name from struct netpoll

于 2011年07月02日 01:07, Joe Perches 写道:

struct netpoll has member .name

struct netpoll {
	struct net_device *dev;
	char dev_name[IFNAMSIZ];
	const char *name;
[...]
};

that is set only by netconsole.c

static struct netconsole_target *alloc_param_target(char *target_config)
{
[...]
	nt->np.name = "netconsole";

and used only by net/core/netpoll.c to emit "netconsole: " on
logging messages.

Probably this is due to that in history netdump was another user of it.

Are there out of tree users or plans to use "struct netpoll"
by other modules?

AFAIK, netoops will use it too, see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/2/299

Cc'ing Matt in case I miss something...

Thanks.