On 8/29/19 4:37 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:27:17 -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote:

quoted

When the netdev gets a new name from userland, pass that name
down to the NIC for internal tracking.

Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <redacted>

There is a precedent in ACPI for telling the FW what OS is running but
how is the interface name useful for the firmware I can't really tell.

It is so we can correlate the host's interface name with the internal 
port data for internal logging.

sln