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driver core: Document that device_rename() is only for networking

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Document that device_rename() is not to be used by anything
other than the network core.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Michael Ellerman 2010-11-25 09:44:07 +11:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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@ -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)
{ {