From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] stmmac: rename it to synopsys Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:32:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20170111.163241.796671207580364768.davem@davemloft.net> References: <5b5a3231-eed4-ef29-b32a-a19077681dad@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com, lars.persson@axis.com, niklass@axis.com, peppe.cavallaro@st.com, alexandre.torgue@st.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: f.fainelli@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:59986 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754204AbdAKVeA (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:34:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <5b5a3231-eed4-ef29-b32a-a19077681dad@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Florian Fainelli 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.