Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip link: add sub-command to view and change DSA master

On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 03:09:50PM +0900, Benjamin Poirier wrote:

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So are we or are we not in the clear with IFLA_DSA_MASTER and
"ip link set ... type dsa master ..."? What does being in the clear even
mean technically, and where can I find more details about the policy
which you just mentioned? Like is it optional or mandatory, was there
any public debate surrounding the motivation for flagging some words,
how is it enforced, are there official exceptions, etc?

There are more details in
Documentation/process/coding-style.rst, end of ยง4.

Thanks for the pointer. So it says that if DSA was introduced in 2020 or
later, a master should have probably been named a host controller or
something of that kind. Which is probably reasonable in this context.
But I don't have the time and energy at my disposal to transition DSA to
an inclusive naming convention, at least not in a way that wouldn't then
be detrimential/confusing in the short term to the user base. So I'll
keep using IFLA_DSA_MASTER, my reading of it is that it's ok.