On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:40:19 -0700
Shannon Nelson [off-list ref] wrote:

+
+static void ionic_lif_set_netdev_info(struct lif *lif)
+{
+	struct ionic_admin_ctx ctx = {
+		.work = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK(ctx.work),
+		.cmd.lif_setattr = {
+			.opcode = CMD_OPCODE_LIF_SETATTR,
+			.index = cpu_to_le16(lif->index),
+			.attr = IONIC_LIF_ATTR_NAME,
+		},
+	};
+
+	strlcpy(ctx.cmd.lif_setattr.name, lif->netdev->name,
+		sizeof(ctx.cmd.lif_setattr.name));
+
+	dev_info(lif->ionic->dev, "NETDEV_CHANGENAME %s %s\n",
+		 lif->name, ctx.cmd.lif_setattr.name);
+

There is already a kernel message for this. Repeating the same thing in the
driver is redundant.