From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joao Pinto Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] stmmac: rename it to synopsys Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:04:45 +0000 Message-ID: <6da8254b-11b2-aa0d-9640-ca73e30bcc0f@synopsys.com> References: <20170112.102630.1448382649844350511.davem@davemloft.net> <3ec17612-255f-5fc7-02c6-9ba5b76d2c09@synopsys.com> <20170112.104539.326369092090046644.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: , , , , , To: David Miller , Return-path: Received: from smtprelay.synopsys.com ([198.182.60.111]:52855 "EHLO smtprelay.synopsys.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750734AbdALQEu (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:04:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20170112.104539.326369092090046644.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Ās 3:45 PM de 1/12/2017, David Miller escreveu: > From: Joao Pinto > Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:39:47 +0000 > >> In my understanding the advantage is to prepare the future. > > If the driver is named foo or bar, yet in both cases loads and > properly attaches to the user's device, the user does not care. Of course. Although my car works I like to open the hood a see it clean and organized. Gives the user more confidence. > > Therefore, there is no bonafide benefit to the user. > > You aren't getting past that point. > > You also are not addressing the pain this will cause for long > term maintainence of this driver. I am aware. I can co-maintain it if current maintainers wish it, no problem with that. My activity at Synopsys in mainline contribution, so it is part of my job. > > I'm the one who does all of the backporting of stmmac bug fixes to > -stable, so I for one care a lot about this. > > You are making more work for me and lots of other people by renaming > this driver and I don't think you are considering that at all. > I understand, it is a lot of work. I volunteer to help. Joao