linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/7] net: phy: introduce phy numbering and phy namespaces

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Message-ID: <4da2f97e-5bfe-fd94-0540-a10ca65d0b58@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:08:23 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        Oleksij Rempel <linux@...pel-privat.de>,
        Nicolò Veronese <nicveronese@...il.com>,
        thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/7] net: phy: introduce phy numbering and
 phy namespaces

On 9/12/23 09:10, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:41:31 +0200
> Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
> 
>>> Introduce a numbering scheme allowing to enumerate PHY devices that
>>> belong to any netdev, which can in turn allow userspace to take more
>>> precise decisions with regard to each PHY's configuration.
>>
>> A minor point, and i know naming is hard, but i keep reading _ns_ and
>> think namespace, as in ip netns. Maybe we should think of something
>> other than ns.
> 
> Yeah that was the initial idea, to imply that the numering is
> independent between netdevices... I thought about "phy_list", "phys",
> "phy_devices" but none of that felt correct :(

How about phy_devices_list?
-- 
Florian