Hi Olof, On 05/05/2014 22:40, Olof Johansson wrote: > 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.
Sure. This version was just a quick an dirty hack, but I'll send a new version integrating this functionality in netdev core. > I don't know what DaveM's opinions on that is though. I'll put him in Cc of the next version. Best Regards, Boris -- 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/
