Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:35:26 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] ethernet/pch_gbe: Change company name OKI SEMICONDUCTOR to LAPIS Semiconductor | From | Tomoya MORINAGA <> |
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Hi David
I can understand your saying.
If I post like below, is this patch acceptable for you ? + tristate "OKI/LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR IOH(ML7223/ML7831) GbE"
BTW, I think need consistency for "Change company/product name" as a whole of linux. Because other patches for the same series "change company name" I posted have already accepted. e.g.(GPIO, USB device, DMA, UART, I2C)
thanks, tomoya
2012/1/31 David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>: > > Sorry, we're not going to get into this pattern where we move drivers > around in the tree every time the company that produces the chip > changes it's name. > > If we did this then certain drivers will have moved 5 or more times > since the beginning of the Linux kernel, and there is nothing to be > gained from that except confusion. > > In fact more valuable thing to do is to refer to both the old and the > new name, rather than just the new one or just the old one. Because > you now have two sets of users, one very large set which is familiar > with the old name and a smaller set which will only know about the new > name. > > Frankly, I would just leave everything alone except perhaps adding a > mention of the new name (and not deleting the old name) in the Kconfig > help text. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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