Re: [PATCH] rt2x00: Use ops name instead of device name

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 13:34 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> > 19:   73474106          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ata_piix, uhci_hcd:usb6, 0000:05:01.0

> >  	rt2x00dev->irq = pci_dev->irq;
> > -	rt2x00dev->name = pci_name(pci_dev);
> > +	rt2x00dev->name = ops->name;


> But then how can users distinguish the IRQs for multiple devices handled
> by the same driver?  (Probably unusual for WLAN devices, but still
> possible.)
> 
> I assume you can't use a net device name as there may be multiple net
> devices per bus device?

Honestly, I do not know this code well enough, but this patch seemed to
solve the problem at hand. Hence I sent it out to the experts hoping
they either take this patch or come up with a proper solution ;)

In any case, just posting the pci address is not a pretty answer.

-- Steve


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