From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (lindbergh.monkeyblade.net [23.128.96.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 452062106 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:08:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qk1-x734.google.com (mail-qk1-x734.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::734]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7E022110; Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:08:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-qk1-x734.google.com with SMTP id af79cd13be357-76de9c23e5cso363397285a.3; Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:08:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20221208; t=1694538514; x=1695143314; darn=vger.kernel.org; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=4otOjvr3R3E7logGWkXFy9+KYYJe3UIuAQ28yWhDj8Y=; b=h+ZtrU+neS7QDoRm57I8MIf0u03+11/XgCcGvjT9lKZ0hUwNsU8kB3IpYiX5KOBhzJ 6kw+2FpqvIERbgyiXFYtv2DdHRWBubPR1fHe00eWr6zsRNflCK3cWDqw2TsCrxWombev jZ9ALqizCQp6JBy4Mwma/A060QGsyqV+XHlsG6ASNRAtHeS/Zh6efw2pt46UnuMW2dM8 4DxGuieSVFe4wtME+ZiJ2Hoyv9KmPZ6Ah4Mb8IXm6Lir+mj4M/4OWobQcWfl137YskSU hYzuCq6FRAtoWD2hg74N0qkijg9+PZlMG2Iwd4pt1iBCHlWAXWwtVBqaXkYsymB6g7hh PlVw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1694538514; x=1695143314; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=4otOjvr3R3E7logGWkXFy9+KYYJe3UIuAQ28yWhDj8Y=; b=LaV8gmEHDpIWQqsBkhroKzhJ7ToBN1ATsHhp2ExYj1co50Jeax0SE4ZpNYkQps6G61 fyySYl0Z5DFfhWmvfvu5Gj4xvGrxngagySv27GKOtRjySeoSl9DwhtSLXgJxh/50j9Qp 1duTIe9IBmrNCT8uAx/FM7Gy3Y5pcABpY5Vg0UJKDKohh6OGITI7XcyLIOdH3U6fvDy9 90bWrHETUdCt8ixJN31h26CU1AKvA9YXWHT7T5FwMTiLp5RPVMjA05gC3PCOq0h6QMw+ HjqJEJFh0GggsSPpYANdS+eo8NPamj8Xvhlz7H2RG4e7Pt2CzbXGdpZFyIzYaTgarFf+ xTeg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0Yw5ND5HDlodzEse4u/1zFAAWHmnCw29wxUlwQrXX5GC1B4MkSZt HVuGDJ3DsTMYvt5VC3i8GX9eK7x+L8LoNA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IH0YlRsKUwbUPupJzN/kK/Mrv09y8VEdwhCA23jNg+rGsU/96R8koDbmRSm5P9eNc4G/NxG4g== X-Received: by 2002:a05:620a:2908:b0:765:9f15:c324 with SMTP id m8-20020a05620a290800b007659f15c324mr7586qkp.48.1694538514537; Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:08:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.67.48.245] ([192.19.223.252]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id k7-20020a05620a142700b0076c89639526sm3305782qkj.93.2023.09.12.10.08.27 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:08:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4da2f97e-5bfe-fd94-0540-a10ca65d0b58@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:08:23 -0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.0 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/7] net: phy: introduce phy numbering and phy namespaces Content-Language: en-US To: Maxime Chevallier , Andrew Lunn Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Heiner Kallweit , Russell King , Vladimir Oltean , Oleksij Rempel , =?UTF-8?Q?Nicol=c3=b2_Veronese?= , thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com, Christophe Leroy References: <20230907092407.647139-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> <20230907092407.647139-2-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> <20230912181010.615d6b79@fedora> From: Florian Fainelli In-Reply-To: <20230912181010.615d6b79@fedora> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9/12/23 09:10, Maxime Chevallier wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:41:31 +0200 > Andrew Lunn wrote: > >>> Introduce a numbering scheme allowing to enumerate PHY devices that >>> belong to any netdev, which can in turn allow userspace to take more >>> precise decisions with regard to each PHY's configuration. >> >> A minor point, and i know naming is hard, but i keep reading _ns_ and >> think namespace, as in ip netns. Maybe we should think of something >> other than ns. > > Yeah that was the initial idea, to imply that the numering is > independent between netdevices... I thought about "phy_list", "phys", > "phy_devices" but none of that felt correct :( How about phy_devices_list? -- Florian