> On Aug 16, 2021, at 2:31 AM, Michael van Elst <mlel...@serpens.de> wrote: > > j...@coris.org.uk (Julian Coleman) writes: > >> We can decide on the name that we'll use (e.g. `ethernet_address') and >> use that in all the drivers. > > Isn't that what we do today? Have a common name and value format, > copied/translated from various sources and stored in the MI device > dictionary.
We sort of have it, and it’s a dumpster fire which is why I want to get away from that. It doesn’t scale (a new driver that needs a new property suddenly needs a new hook in MD code? Yiuck…), and it’s wasteful in terms of memory consumed. -- thorpej
