On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:00:24AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:

On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 16:09 +0200, Veaceslav Falico wrote:

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This way we'll always know in what status the device is, unless it's
running normally (i.e. NETDEV_REGISTERED).

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diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h

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@@ -3388,6 +3388,20 @@ static inline const char *netdev_name(const struct net_device *dev)
 	return dev->name;
 }

+static inline const char *netdev_reg_state(const struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	switch (dev->reg_state) {
+	case NETREG_UNINITIALIZED: return " (unregistered)";

Why not " (uninitialized)"?

Good one, thank you, missed it somehow. Will send v2.

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+	case NETREG_REGISTERED: return "";
+	case NETREG_UNREGISTERING: return " (unregistering)";
+	case NETREG_UNREGISTERED: return " (unregistered)";
+	case NETREG_RELEASED: return " (released)";
+	case NETREG_DUMMY: return " (dummy)";
+	}
+
+	return " (unknown)";

Shouldn't this " (unknown)" have stronger text
and use a WARN_ON_ONCE?

Hrm, I don't remember why, but I've specifically dropped the warning here.
Now it seems like a good idea, so I'll add it here.

I'd put this in net/core/dev.c and make it not be static inline.

Again, I don't think it's really needed, as it's used in 4 functions (which
aren't inline), so the benefits are minimal, if any.

I'll rather keep them inline, I guess...