From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0573F17FE0 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2023 23:20:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 17E9FC433C8; Fri, 7 Jul 2023 23:20:23 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1688772023; bh=guclDQFZI4tq3u2imvS9tUxe63HHhCTkPyK5YI7SuLs=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=FMFf+Hsp7R1yqbzEezLy50tmzQwci415mMRqj29gIDM0kkhhWAP/BJb4nrvXmVXoc e5amezl57ut5LMp81/4PLd/VYCJvqJOoh+tfVMGNy1BfaODRBAykkJEJ8ZJrSjmsQo HTdb81LIkDZcaP0ZZMFrRj9Dpi+fWoV/J3vWwZSXztblUYG3hIgFUzqq5sQ1xTwpGq zohQp0LGZo5hDsYO8ufFsomd+/A45sJa/tjb9Y3MA8SwXs/JHyOQ6Ey0XUzaAyxKAr CaupJAhF8UC1gldzi989hO4bUAF7YZclUAFKB6qaT1WGMv2NnBlCakI3h+MiLct8CH AOH/2s1JtQIUQ== Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 16:20:22 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Junfeng Guo Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeroendb@google.com, pkaligineedi@google.com, shailend@google.com, haiyue.wang@intel.com, awogbemila@google.com, davem@davemloft.net, pabeni@redhat.com, yangchun@google.com, edumazet@google.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] gve: enhance driver name usage Message-ID: <20230707162022.2df4359e@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20230707024405.3653316-1-junfeng.guo@intel.com> References: <20230707024405.3653316-1-junfeng.guo@intel.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 10:44:05 +0800 Junfeng Guo wrote: > Current codebase contained the usage of two different names for this > driver (i.e., `gvnic` and `gve`), which is quite unfriendly for users > to use, especially when trying to bind or unbind the driver manually. > The corresponding kernel module is registered with the name of `gve`. > It's more reasonable to align the name of the driver with the module. Please read the guidelines before posting patches: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/maintainer-netdev.html