From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch (vps0.lunn.ch [156.67.10.101]) (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 9F09E35AC1B; Thu, 2 Jul 2026 18:16:02 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783016164; cv=none; b=Es4cUqQxrX7Bf49/rD5mLRBWcKGOsJsYj+wcrOODEekZOT4/P/SaFTBz6YMwjk3sK8rbhiCTcMSkthIkvgkL8ffx8zL1VMzgM5VBXCuAiU4Ng8LpZdhNwD7FciLwViplbZIG3vdTzMJhSvczhmDuAXsSCnSQKT0sVhNIOmAx8t8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783016164; c=relaxed/simple; bh=LFvbGG8e4RDOCrVe8X6kQOiiTYRB7+xbDmzgPNCW8Js=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=Dw22d0QEOthaLT37WdHR1fzmovrgR+uOFA/4zU1h+YccDdIWCY+geu9xWe0K0E9gseN9Ty2hN2SaYGu6mjY9+MWxyZxrjjg80WCTyayJZ2rXZT6YKbhjZR/ZFFhjcRHoOwtjdzaBDIaHXkRQWfih6aTnMG5UhQlMvwWRYyz+P4k= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b=4cVrgA+f; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b="4cVrgA+f" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Disposition:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:From:Sender:Reply-To:Subject: Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:References; bh=LI6AQYqAXXfUGAx8sXzR8t6YKhCEMxoGaSCmbpo2oFY=; b=4cVrgA+fm4JS9rc+29oYYvOEc/ Cyb67qQhlJDwBY3sdXCePDZfNJHJR7PnvIzA84C4PNvFYXI3tUn15VnGuyBiGF12/AtMKJIE6L2l2 B6I/9VVSamFMdRRj6XqwzA/hkEBk6dylWiYW7bC4cISr7g1kdRG51U/7NWjPISEqW9y8=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1wfLx0-00APrj-Vm; Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:15:50 +0200 Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 20:15:50 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: Oliver Neukum Cc: andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, shaoxul@foxmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: usb: move exported code to usbnet Message-ID: References: <20260702143142.890654-1-oneukum@suse.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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260702143142.890654-1-oneukum@suse.com> On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 04:25:29PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Some drivers are reusing common code originating in other drivers. > This means that two drivers need to be loaded for one device. Maybe consider using 'framework' or 'library', rather than driver, when referring to the shared code? I tend to think of a driver as the leaf node which probes based on enumeration of a bus. But usbnet.c itself is never probed. Andrew