From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] usbnet: use eth%d name for known ethernet devices
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:13:54 +0100
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Cc: Steve Calfee <stevecalfee@gmail.com>,
        Michal Nazarewicz <mnazarewicz@gmail.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
        broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com,
        lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
        David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
        Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, grant.likely@secretlab.ca,
        Linux USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>, andy.green@linaro.org,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
        roger.quadros@nokia.com, Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
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On Thursday 24 March 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:38 -0700, Steve Calfee wrote:
> > On 03/23/11 16:17, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> > >>> On Wednesday 23 March 2011 20:53:13 Michał Nazarewicz wrote:
> > >>>> I think P2P could be better.
> > >>
> > >> 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. 
> 
> PTP is also Precision Time Protocol, which *is* used on network
> interfaces (maybe not USB-connected interfaces though).
> 
> How about FLAG_NON_IEEE, meaning that the physical layer is not based on
> an IEEE 802.3, 802.11 or other standard physical layer.

I think that doesn't really express the meaning, since FLAG_WWAN is
presumably also not IEEE, right?

Thanks for the bike shedding everyone, I'll just use my own color then
and call it FLAG_POINTTOPOINT.

	Arnd
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