From: Steve Calfee <stevecalfee@gmail•com>
To: Michal Nazarewicz <mnazarewicz@gmail•com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime•net>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>,
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>
Subject: Re: [RFC] usbnet: use eth%d name for known ethernet devices
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:38:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D8A8471.9060904@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762r9l94h.fsf@erwin.mina86.com>
On 03/23/11 16:17, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>>>>>>> @@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ struct driver_info {
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> #define FLAG_LINK_INTR 0x0800 /* updates link (carrier) status */
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> +#define FLAG_PTP 0x1000 /* maybe use "usb%d" names */
>
>>>>> On Wednesday 23 March 2011 19:46:50 Greg KH wrote:
>>>>>> "PTP"? What does that stand for?
>
>>>> On Mar 23, 2011 8:36 PM, "Arnd Bergmann"<arnd@arndb•de> wrote:
>>>>> point-to-point, I'll improve the comment to spell it out when
>>>>> I send the fixed version.
>
>>> On Wednesday 23 March 2011 20:53:13 Michał Nazarewicz wrote:
>>>> I think P2P could be better.
>
>> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:57:18 +0100 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> Yes, good idea.
>
> Randy Dunlap<rdunlap@xenotime•net> writes:
>> that's peer-to-peer.
>>
>> 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.
However P2P is about to become a huge wifi issue, which definitely is in
the network space. So don't confuse things in the near future, don't use
P2P.
Maybe a completely different, not so overused flag name would be better.
Regards, Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-23 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <4D79F068.2080009@linaro.org>
[not found] ` <201103231712.06184.arnd@arndb.de>
[not found] ` <20110323162251.GA9367@kroah.com>
2011-03-23 16:56 ` [RFC] usbnet: use eth%d name for known ethernet devices Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-23 17:04 ` Andy Green
2011-03-23 17:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <201103231811.54290.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>
2011-03-24 10:45 ` Andy Green
2011-03-23 17:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-23 17:54 ` David Anders
2011-03-23 18:46 ` Greg KH
2011-03-23 19:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <AANLkTim7hPfTv3gDYnh+jGxHBg0OvX=r1FKYoHnH7H_o@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-23 19:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-23 19:59 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-03-23 23:17 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-03-23 23:19 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-03-23 23:38 ` Steve Calfee [this message]
2011-03-24 0:01 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-03-24 13:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-24 13:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-24 13:44 ` Andy Green
[not found] ` <201103241415.45115.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>
2011-03-24 13:56 ` Alan Stern
2011-03-24 17:20 ` Alexey Orishko
2011-03-25 11:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-25 16:26 ` Alexey Orishko
2011-03-25 16:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
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