[PATCH net v2 1/4] auxiliary: Support hexadecimal ids

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 08:01:07PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
> Support creating auxiliary devices with the id included as part of the
> name. This allows for hexadecimal ids, which may be more appropriate for
> auxiliary devices created as children of memory-mapped devices. If an
> auxiliary device's id is set to AUXILIARY_DEVID_NONE, the name must
> be of the form "name.id".
> 
> With this patch, dmesg logs from an auxiliary device might look something
> like
> 
> [    4.781268] xilinx_axienet 80200000.ethernet: autodetected 64-bit DMA range
> [   21.889563] xilinx_emac.mac xilinx_emac.mac.80200000 net4: renamed from eth0
> [   32.296965] xilinx_emac.mac xilinx_emac.mac.80200000 net4: PHY [axienet-80200000:05] driver [RTL8211F Gigabit Ethernet] (irq=70)
> [   32.313456] xilinx_emac.mac xilinx_emac.mac.80200000 net4: configuring for inband/sgmii link mode
> [   65.095419] xilinx_emac.mac xilinx_emac.mac.80200000 net4: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
> 
> this is especially useful when compared to what might happen if there is
> an error before userspace has the chance to assign a name to the netdev:
> 
> [    4.947215] xilinx_emac.mac xilinx_emac.mac.1 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): incorrect link mode  for in-band status
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson at linux.dev>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Add example log output to commit message

I rejected v1, why is this being sent again?

confused,

greg k-h