Messages in this thread | | | From | Ying Xue <> | Subject | [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] use appropriate APIs to get interfaces | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:23:35 +0800 |
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Under rtnl_lock protection, we should use __dev_get_name/index() rather than dev_get_name()/index() to find interface handlers because the former interfaces can help us avoid to change interface reference counter.
v2 changes: - Change return value of nl80211_set_wiphy() to 0 in patch #10 by johannes's suggestion. - Add 'Acked-by' into several patches which were acknowledged by corresponding maintainers.
Ying Xue (10): Drivers: Staging: cxt1e1: use __dev_get_name instead of dev_get_name to find interfaces bonding: use __dev_get_by_name instead of dev_get_by_name to find interface eql: use __dev_get_by_name instead of dev_get_by_name to find interface dcb: use __dev_get_by_name instead of dev_get_by_name to find interface decnet: use __dev_get_by_index instead of dev_get_by_index to find interface vxlan: use __dev_get_by_index instead of dev_get_by_index to find interface batman-adv: use __dev_get_by_index instead of dev_get_by_index to find interface caif: __dev_get_by_index instead of dev_get_by_index to find interface can: use __dev_get_by_index instead of dev_get_by_index to find interface net: nl80211: __dev_get_by_index instead of dev_get_by_index to find interface
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 49 +++++++++---------- drivers/net/eql.c | 95 ++++++++++++++++-------------------- drivers/net/vxlan.c | 3 +- drivers/staging/cxt1e1/linux.c | 15 +++--- net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 4 +- net/caif/chnl_net.c | 3 +- net/can/gw.c | 15 ++---- net/dcb/dcbnl.c | 15 ++---- net/decnet/dn_route.c | 10 +--- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 102 ++++++++++++++------------------------- 10 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 187 deletions(-)
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