From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.5 43/45] Fix nomenclature for USB and PCI wireless devices
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 22:31:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023090838-slurp-tilt-c7c4@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0d2ddf90-2334-4d0c-9f63-018c150e06a9@rowland.harvard.edu>
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:
> > 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
> > 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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2023-09-08 18:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.5 43/45] Fix nomenclature for USB and PCI wireless devices Sasha Levin
2023-09-08 19:12 ` Alan Stern
2023-09-08 21:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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