Subject: Re: [PATCH] tilegx: request_irq with a non-null device name

From: Chris Metcalf <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:37:11 -0500

On 11/13/2012 3:58 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> This patch simply makes the tilegx net driver call request_irq with a
> non-null name. It makes the output in /proc/interrupts more obvious, but
> also helps tools that don't expect to find null there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Marchi <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilegx.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilegx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilegx.c
> index 4e98100..66e025a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilegx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilegx.c
> @@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ static int tile_net_setup_interrupts(struct net_device *dev)
>  	ingress_irq = rc;
>  	tile_irq_activate(ingress_irq, TILE_IRQ_PERCPU);
>  	rc = request_irq(ingress_irq, tile_net_handle_ingress_irq,
> -			 0, NULL, NULL);
> +			 0, "tile_net", NULL);

Good catch.  If you can change it to dev->name instead of "tile_net", feel
free to add my:

Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <[email-masked]>

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