Subject: Re: RFC: replace device_type with new "class" property?

From: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:06:10 -0500

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:31:02AM -0700, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:
> This works...but certainly is weaker with respect to
> standardization.  My previous argument had the assumption
> that something like "mac-address" in a network node was
> _required_, and thus needed a class id of some sort to tie
> the standardized node to.

It is certainly not required -- the device could have an eeprom, or it might
not be ethernet at all.

-Scott