From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: f.fainelli@gmail.com
Cc: Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com, lars.persson@axis.com, niklass@axis.com,
peppe.cavallaro@st.com, alexandre.torgue@st.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] stmmac: rename it to synopsys
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:32:41 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170111.163241.796671207580364768.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b5a3231-eed4-ef29-b32a-a19077681dad@gmail.com>
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:14:32 -0800
> As mentioned before, although git is able to track renames, git log does
> not automatically have --follow, so it can be hard for people to track
> down the (new) history of the driver.
>
> Personally, I don't see much value in doing this rename, especially when
> all the driver internal structures are still going to be named with
> stmmac (and please don't even think about doing a s/stmmac/snps/ inside
> the driver ;)).
I agree, this could really make long term maintainence and bug fix
backporting a nightmare for a lot of people.
Please strongly reconsider, I still don't see any true value in this
rename.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-11 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-10 14:52 [PATCH v2 0/2] remove dwc_eth_qos and rename stmicro/stmmac Joao Pinto
2017-01-10 14:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] synopsys: remove dwc_eth_qos driver Joao Pinto
2017-01-10 15:15 ` Lars Persson
2017-01-10 14:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] stmmac: rename it to synopsys Joao Pinto
2017-01-11 4:00 ` Jie Deng
2017-01-11 10:35 ` Joao Pinto
2017-01-12 3:44 ` Jie Deng
2017-01-12 5:05 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-01-11 10:00 ` kbuild test robot
2017-01-11 21:14 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-01-11 21:32 ` David Miller [this message]
2017-01-12 9:43 ` Joao Pinto
2017-01-12 10:11 ` Alexandre Torgue
2017-01-12 11:09 ` Joao Pinto
2017-01-12 15:26 ` David Miller
2017-01-12 15:39 ` Joao Pinto
2017-01-12 15:45 ` David Miller
2017-01-12 16:04 ` Joao Pinto
2017-01-12 19:42 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-01-13 11:20 ` Joao Pinto
2017-01-11 11:39 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] remove dwc_eth_qos and rename stmicro/stmmac Alexandre Torgue
2017-01-11 11:54 ` Joao Pinto
2017-01-11 14:25 ` Alexandre Torgue
2017-01-11 14:29 ` Joao Pinto
2017-01-11 14:39 ` Alexandre Torgue
2017-01-11 14:54 ` Joao Pinto
2017-01-11 14:52 ` David Miller
2017-01-11 15:06 ` Joao Pinto
2017-01-11 15:20 ` David Miller
2017-01-11 16:17 ` Joao Pinto
2017-01-11 16:19 ` Joao Pinto
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