Commit 6fe82a39 authored Jul 17, 2014 by Veaceslav Falico Committed by David S. Miller Jul 20, 2014

net: print a notification on device rename



Currently it's done silently (from the kernel part), and thus it might be
hard to track the renames from logs.

Add a simple netdev_info() to notify the rename, but only in case the
previous name was valid.

CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
CC: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
CC: stephen hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
CC: Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
CC: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 4ec68378

net/core/dev.c

+3 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1113,6 +1113,9 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device dev, const char newname)
		return err;
		}

		if (oldname[0] && !strchr(oldname, '%'))
		netdev_info(dev, "renamed from %s\n", oldname);

		old_assign_type = dev->name_assign_type;
		dev->name_assign_type = NET_NAME_RENAMED;