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.harva... 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?
Alan Stern