[U-Boot] [PATCH] common: nvedit to protect additional ethernet addresses Part 1/1

Wolfgang Denk
2008-12-07T09:33:32Z

Dear Ben Warren,

In message <493B6373.3010808@gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> Neat, although it's very tempting to pull a Python 3 and say "screw
> reverse compatibility" and change this naming convention.

If we'd change it, then my vote wouldbe to change ethaddr into
eth0addr :-)

The reasoning for the name (as I see it today [which is different
from the time when "ethaddr" was used for the first time]) is "MAC
address for the Ethernet interface as it's being called in Linux", i.
e. "ethNaddr" means "MAC address of the `ethN' network interface (in
Linux)".

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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