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

From: Andy Green
Date: Thu Mar 24 2011 - 06:45:45 EST


On 03/23/2011 05:11 PM, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
On Wednesday 23 March 2011, Andy Green wrote:
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c
index bc86f4b..c98d3a7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c
@@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ static const struct driver_info smsc95xx_info = {

- .flags = FLAG_ETHER | FLAG_SEND_ZLP,
+ .flags = FLAG_ETHER | FLAG_SEND_ZLP | FLAG_REALLY_ETHER,

if ((dev->driver_info->flags& FLAG_ETHER) != 0&&
+ ((dev->driver_info->flags& FLAG_PTP) == 0 ||
+ (net->dev_addr [0]& 0x02) == 0))
strcpy (net->name, "eth%d");

So it just takes the approach that all smsc95xx are going to be eth%d?

Right, and all other drivers that are obviously ethernet-only, including
future drivers.

I moved my tree over to using this patch now, it's working fine on Panda / smsc95xx as one would expect. Guys with pluggable smsc95xx are going to find their device comes as eth%d not usb%d but that seems perfectly defensible as how it always should have been.

So, nice job.

-Andy
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