On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 03:17:08PM +0000, Ruhl, Michael J wrote: > I have an alternate patch that uses: > > 1) a device name private to the rdmavt instance (for rdmavt logging) > (adds the name as a char) And how does rename work? > 2) doesn't use the kobject from HFI Delete it :( > 3) doesn't use the char in QIB > 4) uses hardwired text rather than a string in the logging > function.: i.e : "hfi1_%d", dd->unit. Would rather see this loggin as a core function like netdev does. Why don't you fix the core code to allow early name assignment? In fact my series here: https://github.com/jgunthorpe/linux/commits/device_locking_cleanup Does pretty much just that already, it needs two more lines and some EXPORT_SYMBOLs, but otherwise does the job. Jason
