netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3] net: dsa: make "label" property optional for dsa2

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Message-Id: <20170111.092734.1181805618953056278.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:27:34 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...oirfairelinux.com, f.fainelli@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        jiri@...nulli.us, uwe@...ine-koenig.org, andrew.smirnov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] net: dsa: make "label" property optional
 for dsa2

From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Date: Mon,  9 Jan 2017 18:13:51 -0500

> In the new DTS bindings for DSA (dsa2), the "ethernet" and "link"
> phandles are respectively mandatory and exclusive to CPU port and DSA
> link device tree nodes.
> 
> Simplify dsa2.c a bit by checking the presence of such phandle instead
> of checking the redundant "label" property.
> 
> Then the Linux philosophy for Ethernet switch ports is to expose them to
> userspace as standard NICs by default. Thus use the standard enumerated
> "eth%d" device name if no "label" property is provided for a user port.
> This allows to save DTS files from subjective net device names.
> 
> If one wants to rename an interface, udev rules can be used as usual.
> 
> Of course the current behavior is unchanged, and the optional "label"
> property for user ports has precedence over the enumerated name.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@...ine-koenig.org>

Applied, thanks.