Re: [PATCH v2] net: phy: rename Asix Electronics PHY driver

[Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>]

Hi Andrew,

Am 19.05.2019 um 02:20 schrieb Andrew Lunn:
> On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 01:14:55PM +1200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>> Commit 31dd83b96641 ("net-next: phy: new Asix Electronics PHY driver")
>> introduced a new PHY driver drivers/net/phy/asix.c that causes a module
>> name conflict with a pre-existiting driver (drivers/net/usb/asix.c).
>>
>> The PHY driver is used by the X-Surf 100 ethernet card driver, and loaded
>> by that driver via its PHY ID. A rename of the driver looks unproblematic.
>>
>> Rename PHY driver to ax88796b.c in order to resolve name conflict.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
>> Fixes: 31dd83b96641 ("net-next: phy: new Asix Electronics PHY driver")
>> ---
>>
>> Changes from v1:
>>
>> - merge into single commit (suggested by Andrew Lunn)
>
> Hi Michael
>
> There is a flag you can pass to git which will make it issue a rename,
> rather than delete and then add. That will make the patch much
> smaller.

Thanks, will do.

> net-next is closed at the moment.

My apologies - I had hoped that as a bugfix. this could go straight to net.

Cheers,

	Michael

>
> http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/net-next.html
>
> Once it reopens, please send a v3, and it will be merged.
>
> Thanks
> 	Andrew
>