On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 03:36:28PM +0300, Aviad Krawczyk wrote: > Hi Joe, > > I tried to be consistent with the comments before, that requested > that we will use dev_err exclude some special cases for use netif. > > We will replace the dev_err(&netdev->dev,.. to netdev_err in the > next fix.
netdev_err() should be used when possible. You just have to be careful in the probe() function, before netdev exists and you get "(NULL net_device):" or before it is registered and you get "(unnamed net_device)" instead of "eth42" etc. Andrew