Commit c6c0ac66 authored by Michael Ellerman's avatar Michael Ellerman Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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: default avatarMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent e030d58e
...@@ -1513,6 +1513,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_destroy); ...@@ -1513,6 +1513,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_destroy);
* exclusion between two different calls of device_rename * exclusion between two different calls of device_rename
* on the same device to ensure that new_name is valid and * on the same device to ensure that new_name is valid and
* won't conflict with other devices. * 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) int device_rename(struct device *dev, const char *new_name)
{ {
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