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