Thread (2 messages) flat view 2 messages, 2 authors, 2017-09-18

[net-next] dummy: declare dummy devices as enumerated devices

From: Zhang Shengju <hidden>
Date: 2017-09-12 01:32:52
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Dummy device name is enumerated by the kernel, let user space be aware
of the naming scheme used by dummy devices:
(visible in /sys/class/net/<iface>/name_assign_type).

Signed-off-by: Zhang Shengju <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/dummy.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/dummy.c b/drivers/net/dummy.c
index d0a1f9c..e31ab3b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dummy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dummy.c
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ static int __init dummy_init_one(void)
 	int err;
 
 	dev_dummy = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct dummy_priv),
-				 "dummy%d", NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, dummy_setup);
+				 "dummy%d", NET_NAME_ENUM, dummy_setup);
 	if (!dev_dummy)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
1.8.3.1
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