On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > On a related note, there are a handful of drivers that register ioports
> > (and IRQ) with the name dev->name (e.g. eth0) as opposed to a more
> > meaningful model name (e.g. "3c503/16"). And some drivers do one for
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> For ISA, it's more informative. For PCI, it's less informative because
> the requested resource appears in /proc/ioports underneath the parent
> PCI device.
Using dev->name is much more meaningful.
I switched over all of my drivers to use dev->name a few years ago.
> However, the only overriding reason to put dev->name into request_region
> was for hotplug reasons, because it was otherwise impossible to build an
Most people with multiple network adapters use the same board type. Seeing
a list of identical board names isn't very useful when you are trying to do
something like map interrupt counts to interface statistics.
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