On 8/29/19 4:37 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
It is so we can correlate the host's interface name with the internal port data for internal logging.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 <snel...@pensando.io>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.
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