Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/hyperv: Advertise hv_netvsc instead of netvsc as driver name

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 07:16:16 +0100

On Wed, Mar 07, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:17:46PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 07, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > @@ -482,7 +484,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(vmbus, id_table);
> > >  
> > >  /* The one and only one */
> > >  static struct  hv_driver netvsc_drv = {
> > > -	.name = "netvsc",
> > > +	.name = MODULE_NAME,
> > 
> > It would be nice if this could be applied to 3.3.
> > hv_storvsc and hid-hyperv already use the same naming, this patch was
> > send last year already but was not applied for some reason.
> 
> What userspace tools depend on this that requires it to be in 3.3?

It represents the module names, at least for pci and other bus types.
hwinfo uses it to recognize a network interface (storage in case of
hv_storvsc).

Olaf