Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NET: usb: sierra_net.c driver

From: Stephen Clark <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:30:45 -0400

On 03/28/2010 08:44 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:12 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote:
>> On 03/28/2010 11:57 AM, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
>>> Hi Elina,
>>>
>>>> +static const struct driver_info sierra_net_info_68A3 = {
>>>> +	.description = "Sierra Wireless USB-Ethernet Modem",
>>>> +	.flags = FLAG_ETHER | FLAG_SEND_ZLP,
>>>> +	.bind = sierra_net_bind,
>>>> +	.unbind = sierra_net_unbind,
>>>> +	.status = sierra_net_status,
>>>> +	.rx_fixup = sierra_net_rx_fixup,
>>>> +	.tx_fixup = sierra_net_tx_fixup,
>>>> +	.data = (unsigned long)&sierra_net_info_data_68A3,
>>>> +};
>>>
>>> the FLAG_ETHER is wrong here. Please use FLAG_WWAN to clearly mark these
>>> interfaces.
>>>
>>> Otherwise we have wrong DEVTYPE uevent assignments and userspace will
>>> treat them as real Ethernet cards. And that should not happen. As a nice
>> Why shouldn't that happen if they look like NIC cards?
> [...]
>
> This information is important for management interfaces.  The user
> doesn't care what your device looks like at the kernel level - they know
> it's a wireless broadband device and they expect to see a device
> labelled as such in Network Manager or whatever they use.
>
> Ben.
>
You sound like a windows guy! Whats with everything having to use 
NetworkManager!? Are people so dumb they can't figure things out from
the command line. If it acts like a NIC it should be a NIC. I am
so tired of eveyone trying to make Linux look and act like WINBLOWS.

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