From: Veaceslav Falico Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:46:09 +0000 (+0200) Subject: net: use dev->name in netdev_pr* when it's available X-Git-Tag: v3.17-rc1~106^2~125^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c6f854d57d704a97adbf952ef0948acc68f3312c;p=linux-2.6-block.git net: use dev->name in netdev_pr* when it's available netdev_name() returns dev->name only when the net_device is in NETREG_REGISTERED state. However, dev->name is always populated on creation, so we can easily use it. There are two cases when there's no real name - when it's an empty string or when the name is in form of "eth%d", then netdev_name() returns "unnamed net_device". CC: "David S. Miller" CC: Tom Gundersen Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico Acked-by: Tom Gundersen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 15ed750458ad..70256aa2ae81 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -3383,8 +3383,8 @@ extern struct pernet_operations __net_initdata loopback_net_ops; static inline const char *netdev_name(const struct net_device *dev) { - if (dev->reg_state != NETREG_REGISTERED) - return "(unregistered net_device)"; + if (!dev->name[0] || strchr(dev->name, '%')) + return "(unnamed net_device)"; return dev->name; }