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authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2010-11-25 09:44:07 +1100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-11-29 13:47:05 -0800
commitc6c0ac664c86ff6408fadbed4913938c8a732e26 (patch)
treeb48f5fef6e5b2e7543e4e7116d42a950353e8199 /drivers/base/core.c
parente030d58e8860f1c87b17631dbdd70747cbe1fb5b (diff)
driver core: Document that device_rename() is only for networking
Document that device_rename() is not to be used by anything other than the network core. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 46ff6c25193..610d967632c 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -1513,6 +1513,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_destroy);
* exclusion between two different calls of device_rename
* on the same device to ensure that new_name is valid and
* won't conflict with other devices.
+ *
+ * "Never use this function, bad things will happen" - gregkh
*/
int device_rename(struct device *dev, const char *new_name)
{