Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Feb 2022 22:00:16 -0600 | From | Rob Herring <> | Subject | Re: [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
| |