From: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:14:32 -0800
> As mentioned before, although git is able to track renames, git log does > not automatically have --follow, so it can be hard for people to track > down the (new) history of the driver. > > Personally, I don't see much value in doing this rename, especially when > all the driver internal structures are still going to be named with > stmmac (and please don't even think about doing a s/stmmac/snps/ inside > the driver ;)). I agree, this could really make long term maintainence and bug fix backporting a nightmare for a lot of people. Please strongly reconsider, I still don't see any true value in this rename.
