Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change request_irq() to use struct net_device *dev->name

From: Sergei Shtylyov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:33:24 +0400

Hello.

On 07/25/2013 10:31 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

>> Andy,
>>    I can't find a single example of a devres_* call in
>> drivers/net/ethernet/*. Does any networking code exist that we can look at
>> as an example for conversion to the devres API?

> devres API usually means managed version of the functions that used
> mostly at probe() stage.
> For example, devm_*() or pcim_*() calls.

    It's also called managed device API. In fact, I've never heard it named 
devres API.

WBR, Sergei