[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "net: add description for len argument of dev_get_phys_port_name" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Mar 30 23:55:10 UTC 2016


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: add description for len argument of dev_get_phys_port_name

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 4abe7345ff95e284a27f173a8341e8e0221fe217 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg at osg.samsung.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:31:14 +0000
Subject: net: add description for len argument of dev_get_phys_port_name

commit ed49e650371008b0e00c8004cc2ca93055740f78 upstream.

When the function dev_get_phys_port_name was added it missed a description
for it's len argument. Adding it.

Fixes: db24a9044ee1 ("net: add support for phys_port_name")
Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg at osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index f1f1dd8..79a39de 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6065,6 +6065,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_phys_port_id);
  *	dev_get_phys_port_name - Get device physical port name
  *	@dev: device
  *	@name: port name
+ *	@len: limit of bytes to copy to name
  *
  *	Get device physical port name
  */
--
2.7.4





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