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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 13:40:15 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Svyatoslav Nikolenko <nsvatoslav515@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: rtl8723bs: Remove manual ifname allocation
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On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 01:50:03PM +0300, Svyatoslav Nikolenko wrote:
> The manual ifname allocation via dev_alloc_name() is redundant because
> the networking core handles interface naming automatically during
> register_netdev().
> 
> Remove the ifname module parameter, the corresponding field from
> struct registry_priv, and the rtw_init_netdev_name() callpath.
> 
> Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Svyatoslav Nikolenko <nsvatoslav515@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Added missing changelog.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Removed rtw_init_netdev_name() and the entire manual naming callpath 
>   instead of hardcoding "wlan%d", as suggested by Greg KH.

After this patch is applied, what is the network device name?  Are you
able to test it?

thanks,

greg k-h