On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 18:08:08 +0200 Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 17:50:32 +0200 > Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I would say, this is now too late. Changing an interface name > > > > will break configuration scripts. We are stuck with it. > > > > > > > > > > If it weren't for commit cb4f71c42988 that would have been obvious > > > for me as well. > > > > Yes, that was not nice. But it was also very earlier in the life of > > 38x, so it just affected a few developers with reference boards, not > > real products out in the wild, as far as i remember. > > > > Andrew > > The mentioned commit bit me amongst others, see > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/21/62 > > In fact I expect the impact to be much lower this time around, before > 4.10 DSA was no contender for swconfig (out of tree switch driver as > used by OpenWrt and others). On Mamba ~200Mbit was top speed. Now they > perform roughly the same. When I said much lower I left out the obvious, this only affects a specific product line respectively a single device unlike the 38x change. I asked Chad McCue, principal developer of McDebian [1] (the only "firmware" using DSA I know of / could make out) about this. McDebain already uses "wan" across all devices in the series. Ralph [1] https://github.com/Chadster766/McDebian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
