netdev - Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NET: usb: sierra

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Date:	Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:12:44 -0400
From:	Stephen Clark <sclark46@...thlink.net>
To:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
CC:	Elina Pasheva <epasheva@...rrawireless.com>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Rory Filer <rfiler@...rrawireless.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NET: usb: sierra_net.c driver

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?

> benefit the interface name will be wwan%d by default as well.
>
> Regards
>
> Marcel
>
>
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