From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: andy.green@linaro.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>,
Linux USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, roger.quadros@nokia.com,
grant.likely@secretlab.ca
Subject: Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:08:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110323150852.GE6284@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103231132.02690.arnd@arndb.de>
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:32:02AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 March 2011, Andy Green wrote:
> > It's the case for even usbnet, which is using a broken heuristic to
> > decide what to call the interface not even based on vid / pid.
>
> I agree that the heuristics in usbnet is less than helpful here,
> which among other things leads people to mixing up the two problems
> of fixing the device naming and fixing the MAC address assignment.
>
> Even though I know Greg disagrees, I'd still prefer sanitising the
> rules for the default device name that usbnet assigns.
I'm all for that, but recall, we can't because of previous
implementations and past history. I.e. you will break working systems
if you do this. So we are stuck with what we have at the moment, sorry.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-23 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 156+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-11 9:50 RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets Andy Green
2011-03-11 12:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-11 12:44 ` Andy Green
2011-03-11 14:42 ` Roger Quadros
2011-03-11 15:12 ` Roger Quadros
2011-03-11 15:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-11 15:50 ` Roger Quadros
2011-03-11 15:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-11 15:29 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-11 15:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-11 16:03 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-11 16:14 ` Greg KH
2011-03-11 16:27 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-11 16:35 ` Greg KH
2011-03-11 16:48 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-11 16:56 ` Greg KH
2011-03-11 17:08 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-11 17:23 ` Greg KH
2011-03-11 17:41 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-17 2:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-17 20:13 ` Greg KH
2011-03-17 20:18 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-17 20:26 ` Greg KH
2011-03-17 21:24 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-17 21:31 ` Greg KH
2011-03-17 21:40 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-17 21:47 ` Greg KH
2011-03-17 22:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-17 22:53 ` Greg KH
2011-03-17 23:18 ` Andy Green
2011-03-17 23:25 ` Greg KH
2011-03-18 7:42 ` Andy Green
2011-03-18 22:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-18 22:57 ` Andy Green
2011-03-18 4:54 ` Grant Likely
2011-03-18 8:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-17 23:22 ` Andy Green
2011-03-18 15:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-18 15:15 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-18 17:52 ` Andy Green
2011-03-18 18:20 ` David Anders
2011-03-18 18:25 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-18 20:02 ` Andy Green
2011-03-18 21:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-18 21:17 ` Andy Green
2011-03-18 20:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-18 21:33 ` Andy Green
2011-03-18 23:25 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-18 23:33 ` Andy Green
2011-03-18 21:36 ` Grant Likely
2011-03-18 22:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-18 21:28 ` Grant Likely
2011-03-18 23:04 ` Andy Green
2011-03-18 22:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-18 22:39 ` Andy Green
2011-03-17 23:27 ` Grant Likely
2011-03-18 7:49 ` Andy Green
2011-03-18 8:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-18 8:38 ` Andy Green
2011-03-17 22:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-17 22:20 ` Greg KH
2011-03-18 8:42 ` Roger Quadros
2011-03-18 9:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-18 9:55 ` Roger Quadros
2011-03-18 10:09 ` Andy Green
2011-03-17 21:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-17 21:32 ` Greg KH
2011-03-11 16:26 ` Andy Green
2011-03-11 16:45 ` Alan Stern
2011-03-11 16:51 ` Andy Green
2011-03-11 17:08 ` Greg KH
2011-03-11 18:09 ` Andy Green
2011-03-11 19:12 ` Alan Stern
2011-03-11 20:05 ` Andy Green
2011-03-11 20:21 ` Greg KH
2011-03-11 21:07 ` Andy Green
2011-03-11 21:44 ` Greg KH
2011-03-11 22:24 ` Andy Green
2011-03-12 16:00 ` Alan Stern
2011-03-12 23:02 ` Andy Green
2011-03-11 19:37 ` Greg KH
2011-03-11 16:53 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-11 16:08 ` Greg KH
2011-03-11 16:20 ` Andy Green
2011-03-11 16:36 ` Greg KH
2011-03-11 16:41 ` Andy Green
2011-03-11 22:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-11 21:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-11 22:45 ` Grant Likely
2011-03-11 22:47 ` Andy Green
2011-03-11 23:39 ` Grant Likely
2011-03-14 14:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-22 15:05 ` Jaswinder Singh
2011-03-22 16:04 ` Andy Green
2011-03-22 18:19 ` Jaswinder Singh
2011-03-22 18:37 ` Andy Green
2011-03-22 18:59 ` Jaswinder Singh
2011-03-22 19:35 ` Andy Green
[not found] ` <AANLkTim=ezye=1fQP_1a2SWbPnbENP9B+k27Z3AkS=zf@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-22 15:12 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-22 15:23 ` Jaswinder Singh
2011-03-24 18:56 ` Grant Likely
2011-03-22 21:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-22 22:37 ` Andy Green
2011-03-23 1:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-23 2:26 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-23 3:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-23 4:21 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-23 4:56 ` Greg KH
2011-03-23 5:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-23 9:38 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-23 10:53 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-23 15:04 ` Greg KH
2011-03-23 15:10 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-23 15:24 ` Andy Green
2011-03-23 15:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-23 15:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-23 9:31 ` Andy Green
2011-03-23 9:47 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-23 10:06 ` Andy Green
2011-03-23 10:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-23 10:39 ` Andy Green
2011-03-23 10:56 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-23 11:13 ` Andy Green
2011-03-23 11:34 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-23 12:02 ` Andy Green
2011-03-23 15:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-03-23 16:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-23 16:22 ` Greg KH
2011-03-23 16:34 ` Andy Green
2011-03-23 16:56 ` [RFC] usbnet: use eth%d name for known ethernet devices Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-23 17:04 ` Andy Green
2011-03-23 17:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-24 10:45 ` Andy Green
2011-03-23 17:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-23 17:54 ` David Anders
2011-03-23 18:46 ` Greg KH
2011-03-23 19:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <AANLkTim7hPfTv3gDYnh+jGxHBg0OvX=r1FKYoHnH7H_o@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-23 19:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-23 19:59 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-03-23 23:17 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-03-23 23:19 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-03-23 23:38 ` Steve Calfee
2011-03-24 0:01 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-03-24 13:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-24 13:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-24 13:44 ` Andy Green
2011-03-24 13:56 ` Alan Stern
2011-03-24 17:20 ` Alexey Orishko
2011-03-25 11:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-25 16:26 ` Alexey Orishko
2011-03-25 16:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-24 19:17 ` RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets Grant Likely
2011-03-24 20:10 ` Andy Green
2011-03-23 14:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-23 10:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-23 15:11 ` Nicolas Pitre
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