Às 3:45 PM de 1/12/2017, David Miller escreveu: > From: Joao Pinto <joao.pi...@synopsys.com> > 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
