Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2020-01-02

Re: [PATCH] stmmac: debugfs entry name is not be changed when udev rename device name.

From: Randy Dunlap <hidden>
Date: 2019-12-31 02:22:41
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, lkml

On 12/30/19 6:16 PM, Jiping Ma wrote:

On 12/31/2019 10:11 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
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Hi,

On 12/30/19 6:03 PM, Jiping Ma wrote:
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Add one notifier for udev changes net device name.

Signed-off-by: Jiping Ma <redacted>
---
  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++-
  1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index b14f46a57154..c1c877bb4421 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -4038,6 +4038,40 @@ static int stmmac_dma_cap_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
  }
  DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(stmmac_dma_cap);
  +/**
Just use /* here since this is not a kernel-doc comment.
/** is reserved for kernel-doc comments/notation.
I use checkpatch.pl to check my patch, it show one warning, then I change * to **.   I will change it back to *.
It should be more like:

/* Use network device events to create/remove/rename
 * debugfs file entries.
 */
WARNING: networking block comments don't use an empty /* line, use /* Comment...
#23: FILE: drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c:4042:
+/*
+ * Use network device events to create/remove/rename
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+ * Use network device events to create/remove/rename
+ * debugfs file entries
+ */
+static int stmmac_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
+                   unsigned long event, void *ptr)
+{

-- 
~Randy
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted>
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