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| author | Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com> | 2014-07-17 20:33:32 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-07-20 20:44:25 -0700 |
| commit | 6fe82a39e583a50f28f03b294df79c9de9ec0de4 (patch) | |
| tree | d6571b3ab0d392a92e9012053eacd0848b783787 | |
| parent | 4ec6837804e4a0e096930f9d989952cb081eae2f (diff) | |
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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>
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 81d61014fd9b..e52a3788d18d 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -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; |