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From: Ivan Safonov <insafonov@gmail.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ivan Safonov <insafonov@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] net: fix register_netdev description
Date: Sun,  6 Oct 2024 20:57:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241006175718.17889-3-insafonov@gmail.com> (raw)

register_netdev() does not expands the device name.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Safonov <insafonov@gmail.com>
---
v2: Remove excessive blank line

 net/core/dev.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index cd479f5f22f6..861dbd6e46e8 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -10611,9 +10611,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_dummy_netdev);
  *	chain. 0 is returned on success. A negative errno code is returned
  *	on a failure to set up the device, or if the name is a duplicate.
  *
- *	This is a wrapper around register_netdevice that takes the rtnl semaphore
- *	and expands the device name if you passed a format string to
- *	alloc_netdev.
+ *	This is a wrapper around register_netdevice that takes
+ *	the rtnl semaphore.
  */
 int register_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
 {
-- 
2.44.2


             reply	other threads:[~2024-10-06 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-06 17:57 Ivan Safonov [this message]
2024-10-06 21:16 ` Andrew Lunn
2024-10-06 22:00   ` Ivan Safonov
2024-10-06 22:48     ` Andrew Lunn

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