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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
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