On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:50:39PM +0000, Andy Green wrote:

This is part of an RFC patch series introducing asynchronous platform
data, which may be attached to discovered bus devices at probe time
based on the device path.

As part of the series, platform_data is enabled in usbnet layer.

This patch defines the usbnet platform data, allowing the panda board
definition file to assert the naming of the usbnet network interface
should be eth%d instead of usb%d.

Why is this?  If you want to do this, it should be done in userspace
today, no need to involve the kernel in this type of thing.

So I don't see the point of this patch.

thanks,

greg k-h