Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933306Ab1CWXic (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:38:32 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f179.google.com ([209.85.212.179]:55522 "EHLO mail-px0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933061Ab1CWXia (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:38:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kT031AJy+tCP1xfOG/rxDihJaeY/fJtYBvUHV0ivY4JPtURQLyz1kNDuf1ZMvQLPy4 8+wNu1/lgYC3xlAplS+xT+LYOnAPsJjowN744tYGbKaVVERWxjYCyq6ZgtzsLPSDfuan 2vp1tDOnSq1NDfHNp5ZCkzKiPseET267Ov9BA= Message-ID: <4D8A8471.9060904@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:38:25 -0700 From: Steve Calfee User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michal Nazarewicz CC: Randy Dunlap , Arnd Bergmann , broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, lkml , Nicolas Pitre , Greg KH , David Brownell , Alan Cox , grant.likely@secretlab.ca, Linux USB list , andy.green@linaro.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , roger.quadros@nokia.com, Jaswinder Singh Subject: Re: [RFC] usbnet: use eth%d name for known ethernet devices References: <4D79F068.2080009@linaro.org> <201103232035.18232.arnd@arndb.de> <201103232057.18150.arnd@arndb.de> <20110323125958.76285c0f.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <8762r9l94h.fsf@erwin.mina86.com> In-Reply-To: <8762r9l94h.fsf@erwin.mina86.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1640 Lines: 45 On 03/23/11 16:17, Michal Nazarewicz wrote: >>>>>>> @@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ struct driver_info { >>>>>>> >>>>>>> #define FLAG_LINK_INTR 0x0800 /* updates link (carrier) status */ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> +#define FLAG_PTP 0x1000 /* maybe use "usb%d" names */ > >>>>> On Wednesday 23 March 2011 19:46:50 Greg KH wrote: >>>>>> "PTP"? What does that stand for? > >>>> On Mar 23, 2011 8:36 PM, "Arnd Bergmann" wrote: >>>>> point-to-point, I'll improve the comment to spell it out when >>>>> I send the fixed version. > >>> On Wednesday 23 March 2011 20:53:13 Michał Nazarewicz wrote: >>>> I think P2P could be better. > >> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:57:18 +0100 Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> Yes, good idea. > > Randy Dunlap writes: >> that's peer-to-peer. >> >> OTOH, I knew that PTP was point-to-point. > > It can be any of that, depending on context. For me PTP is more like > Picture Transport Protocol, whereas "2" between two letters is usually > "to". > Well, my 2 cents, picture transport protocol is so obviously different than flags for network interfaces it does not cause a mental collision. However P2P is about to become a huge wifi issue, which definitely is in the network space. So don't confuse things in the near future, don't use P2P. Maybe a completely different, not so overused flag name would be better. Regards, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/