Re: Printing the driver name as part of the netdev watchdog message

[David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:08:01 -0700

> Does this patch look like the right approach for achieving the goal?

It's almost there.

You can issue an ethtool_ops->get_drvinfo() call, on devices which
support ethtool, and fetch the driver info from there.

Your current method of obtaining this info can be used as the
fallback when the ethtool op fails.
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