Re: where is the ethernet device number determined?

On 05/12/2016 02:19 PM, Cong Wang wrote:

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Chris Friesen [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I hope this is a simple question...with legacy naming ethernet devices are
named ethX.  Where is that X determined?  I've been looking in
alloc_netdev_mqs() and friends, but haven't found it yet.

__dev_alloc_name()

Much appreciated.

Chris