Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets

Greg KH
2011-03-11T16:08:58Z

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:50:32AM +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> The particular use that suggested this is on Panda, it would be
> ideal to be able to set a flag in the usb device's platform data
> that forces it to be named eth%d since it's a hardwired asset on the
> board with an RJ45 socket.

If you _really_ need to name your network devices in a specific order,
then use the userspace tools we already have to do this. That is what
they were created for, why ignore them?

thanks,

greg k-h