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authorVeaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>2014-07-17 20:33:32 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-07-20 20:44:25 -0700
commit6fe82a39e583a50f28f03b294df79c9de9ec0de4 (patch)
treed6571b3ab0d392a92e9012053eacd0848b783787 /net/core
parent4ec6837804e4a0e096930f9d989952cb081eae2f (diff)
downloadlinux-6fe82a39e583a50f28f03b294df79c9de9ec0de4.tar.bz2
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c3
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;