Re: [RFC] usbnet: use eth%d name for known ethernet devices

Alexey Orishko
2011-03-24T17:20:49Z

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

>
> The approach taken here is to flag whether a device might be a
> point-to-point link with the new FLAG_PTP setting in the usbnet
> driver_info. A driver can set both FLAG_PTP and FLAG_ETHER if
> it is not sure (e.g. cdc_ether), or just one of the two.

> The usbnet framework only looks at the MAC address for device
> naming if both flags are set, otherwise it trusts the flag.

Should this paragraph above be a clue for the flag name?
Sorry for late comment, but having flag called FLAG_POINTTOPOINT is really
confusing. ptp, p2p terms are heavily used and will mislead folks.

Would it be better to call it something like IGNORE_MAC_ADDRESS if this is the
feature you are targeting?

/Alexey