From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Yoder Stuart-B08248 <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: RFC: replace device_type with new "class" property?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:06:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071031170610.GA4444@loki.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9696D7A991D0824DBA8DFAC74A9C5FA3035F2AC3@az33exm25.fsl.freescale.net>
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:31:02AM -0700, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:
> This works...but certainly is weaker with respect to
> standardization. My previous argument had the assumption
> that something like "mac-address" in a network node was
> _required_, and thus needed a class id of some sort to tie
> the standardized node to.
It is certainly not required -- the device could have an eeprom, or it might
not be ethernet at all.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-29 14:37 RFC: replace device_type with new "class" property? Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-10-29 15:20 ` Matt Sealey
2007-10-29 16:11 ` Scott Wood
2007-10-29 17:27 ` Dale Farnsworth
2007-10-29 19:02 ` Matt Sealey
2007-10-29 19:30 ` Scott Wood
2007-10-29 19:34 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-10-29 19:44 ` Scott Wood
2007-10-29 20:20 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-10-29 23:03 ` Dale Farnsworth
2007-10-30 0:29 ` David Gibson
2007-10-30 0:26 ` David Gibson
2007-10-29 18:55 ` Matt Sealey
2007-10-29 19:21 ` Scott Wood
2007-10-30 0:23 ` David Gibson
2007-10-29 21:22 ` Olof Johansson
2007-10-30 0:51 ` David Gibson
2007-10-30 14:56 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-10-30 23:27 ` David Gibson
2007-10-31 15:25 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-10-31 15:31 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-10-31 17:06 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2007-10-31 18:05 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-10-31 22:55 ` David Gibson
2007-10-30 16:23 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-10-30 16:33 ` Scott Wood
2007-10-30 19:06 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-10-30 19:38 ` Grant Likely
2007-10-30 23:02 ` David Gibson
2007-10-30 22:58 ` David Gibson
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