On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:29:56AM +0100, Boris BREZILLON wrote: > Use aliases to set the interface name (ethX) instead of automatic > assignement. > > Signed-off-by: Boris BREZILLON <[email protected]> > --- > > Hello Nicolas, Jean-Christophe, > > This is an example on how we could set the ethernet interface id based on DT > aliases. > As you can see this patch is not properly separated. > > I'm still not happy with this approach for several reasons: > 1) If another ethernet iface has already been registered with the same id the > net dev registration will fail. > 2) We bypass the ethernet macros/functions and directly use the net device > functions which IMHO is not future proof.
[Sorry for the late reply, going through old backlog of unread email] Looks like this should live in networking core instead of in the driver, it's how we handle it in other subsystems. I don't know what DaveM's opinions on that is though. -Olof -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
