Commit c6c0ac66 authored Nov 25, 2010 by Michael Ellerman Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Nov 29, 2010

driver core: Document that device_rename() is only for networking



Document that device_rename() is not to be used by anything
other than the network core.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

parent e030d58e

drivers/base/core.c

+2 −0

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		@@ -1513,6 +1513,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_destroy);
		* exclusion between two different calls of device_rename
		* on the same device to ensure that new_name is valid and
		* won't conflict with other devices.
		*
		* "Never use this function, bad things will happen" - gregkh
		*/
		int device_rename(struct device dev, const char new_name)
		{