.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "DEV_CHANGE_NAME" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME dev_change_name \- change name of a device .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp int dev_change_name (struct net_device * \fIdev\fB, char * \fInewname\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIdev\fB\fR device .TP \fB\fInewname\fB\fR name (or format string) must be at least IFNAMSIZ .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Change name of a device, can pass format strings ``ethd''\&. for wildcarding.