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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next v1 4/4] usbnet: add support for label from device tree
On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:49:05AM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> Similar to the option to set a netdev name in device tree for switch
> ports by using the property "label" in the DSA framework, this patch
> adds this functionality to the usbnet infrastructure.
>
> This will help to name the interfaces properly throughout supported
> devices. This provides stable interface names which are useful
> especially in embedded use cases.

I'll pile on... The purpose of 'label' is to describe a human readable
label on a port of a box. It should otherwise be opaque to s/w. Yes,
there are abuses of that in the kernel, but don't add more.

Rob

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