From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F79EC3A59B for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:36:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DAA823439 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:36:28 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=pensando.io header.i=@pensando.io header.b="l30cE2wn" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728180AbfH3Vg1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:36:27 -0400 Received: from mail-pg1-f193.google.com ([209.85.215.193]:36519 "EHLO mail-pg1-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728079AbfH3Vg1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:36:27 -0400 Received: by mail-pg1-f193.google.com with SMTP id l21so4164888pgm.3 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:36:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=pensando.io; s=google; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding:content-language; bh=76QdysOCmSp1PnJcg6eWwiopf2Dn3FgfjCclb+CUVIY=; b=l30cE2wnx/r7Gg9fc1odfzKenwtsnNSsfRUJHaRUV5KUeskkexZNrvQJw8u5APcPU9 ldWaE07UPe0gARrkXHd272PWE19QhZhsrNjD1hXFnplSWK+IYsONf1c2y1W+biGafWrq 5jSSLO/IjADkKrR9ueuwHhc8CqY+wVl4E/JPYDjEsH57wv0x3oawDLggT/KqtS8RMaFZ 0Sdz26SzrBy1+DLndVgQ/2PZVBJRMjbLy1zcyOPXEJAHYqxKhPilOvT1G//oprXQfx6o QNVmhGabgsTWIQIhYjlmb6MY1rQ2SInqO4WpdebiDm7gMrFk1hkGDabu95GZsnQIg6jm ecIw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding :content-language; bh=76QdysOCmSp1PnJcg6eWwiopf2Dn3FgfjCclb+CUVIY=; b=ngDDPAC5KXJAFNJtbsZWhgNZPjkfDFRKbdjmGbylNtDDgfSFKWV6eK3zS5qsv93J4k AWJu89u5e3BmRDcD8ZQSo5WmBONou9OKp4bMfZPIA1E8R5ntID9RHEy4QjA2oZhKXvY/ yOZHcCfX14qDDASeYKewq3zXQVeGcfwp/xnnSaLyeY9vLTb+jNMi46ZZdHtfBKT+/f09 oLeo0W4lTgDhppEGiPAj3VZqEkzyssXNhLGd4KmuvQbBxBFW5iBYlqkhJeo3oazOg3R0 FUJq/Jo6Mqxsj/ApalIav2I5L8+4cPh6pWNoyz3Eabb8fRIlsCyTcAevQjZ4prN3xDtT AaEA== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAWrnjgcS6fcOgecFaubQYU14n6AQDlr8Y6qTvLXD3PVdvUifp9b mCOyLY/tasAmzsOdKOy+5JhPY7Usnmg= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqw7EvMvd5N0pJ29yPqps8xU8Qf4i1WkrZpUn4oXqxoHjIcLJLNaXkXzeLgN+qq3AAT6Wcl9bw== X-Received: by 2002:a17:90a:6504:: with SMTP id i4mr622843pjj.13.1567200986584; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:36:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Shannons-MacBook-Pro.local ([12.1.37.26]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q2sm4822315pfg.144.2019.08.30.14.36.25 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 16/19] ionic: Add netdev-event handling To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net References: <20190829182720.68419-1-snelson@pensando.io> <20190829182720.68419-17-snelson@pensando.io> <20190829163738.64e7fe42@cakuba.netronome.com> From: Shannon Nelson Message-ID: <336eacda-27ae-d513-7888-429e34e29b76@pensando.io> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:36:23 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190829163738.64e7fe42@cakuba.netronome.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On 8/29/19 4:37 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:27:17 -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote: >> When the netdev gets a new name from userland, pass that name >> down to the NIC for internal tracking. >> >> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson > There is a precedent in ACPI for telling the FW what OS is running but > how is the interface name useful for the firmware I can't really tell. It is so we can correlate the host's interface name with the internal port data for internal logging. sln