Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/16] virtio_net: introduce virtnet_get_netdev()

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 21:22:03 -0700

On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:28:43 +0800 Xuan Zhuo wrote:
> +const struct net_device_ops *virtnet_get_netdev(void)
> +{
> +	return &virtnet_netdev;
> +}

Why not just make the virtnet_netdev symbol visible?
Many drivers do that.

If you prefer the function maybe virtnet_get_ndos() would be a better
name for example? The current name sounds like it will get a... well..
a netdev. And it gets ops.