Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.5 43/45] Fix nomenclature for USB and PCI wireless devices

On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 03:12:26PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:

On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 02:13:24PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:

quoted

From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

[ Upstream commit 5d7cf67f72ae34d38e090bdfa673da4aefe4048e ]

A mouse that uses a USB connection is called a "USB mouse" device (or
"USB mouse" for short), not a "mouse USB" device.  By analogy, a WiFi
adapter that connects to the host computer via USB is a "USB wireless"
device, not a "wireless USB" device.  (The latter term more properly
refers to a defunct Wireless USB specification, which described a
technology for sending USB protocol messages over an ultra wideband
radio link.)

Similarly for a WiFi adapter card that plugs into a PCIe slot: It is a
"PCIe wireless" device, not a "wireless PCIe" device.

Rephrase the text in the kernel source where the word ordering is
wrong.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/57da7c80-0e48-41b5-8427-884a02648f55@rowland.harvard.edu (local)
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

Is there any real reason to apply this commit to the -stable kernels?
I did not mark it that way when it was submitted, and it doesn't fix
any bugs.  In fact, aside from updating some module and device
description strings, all it does is change a bunch of comments.

Does that really fall under the -stable rules for acceptance?

Not really, this is just documentation, it should be dropped from the
autosel queues.

thanks,

greg k-h

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