driver core: Document that device_rename() is only for networking
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>
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 46ff6c2..610d967 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -1513,6 +1513,8 @@
* exclusion between two different calls of device_rename
* on the same device to ensure that new_name is valid and
* 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)
{