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| author | Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> | 2010-11-25 09:44:07 +1100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-11-29 13:47:05 -0800 |
| commit | c6c0ac664c86ff6408fadbed4913938c8a732e26 (patch) | |
| tree | b48f5fef6e5b2e7543e4e7116d42a950353e8199 /drivers/base/core.c | |
| parent | e030d58e8860f1c87b17631dbdd70747cbe1fb5b (diff) | |
| download | lwn-c6c0ac664c86ff6408fadbed4913938c8a732e26.tar.gz lwn-c6c0ac664c86ff6408fadbed4913938c8a732e26.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/core.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/core.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index 46ff6c251932..610d967632cd 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -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) { |