netdev - Re: [PATCH] ibm_emac: Remove the ibm

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Message-ID: <20080617203912.4d51ddb9@zod.rchland.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:39:12 -0400
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@...atech.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibm_emac: Remove the ibm_emac driver

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:34:43 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 20:11 -0400, Sean MacLennan wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:35:23 -0400
> > Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > The arch/ppc sub-tree has been removed in the powerpc git tree.  The
> > > old ibm_emac driver is no longer used by anything as a result of
> > > this.  This removes it, leaving the ibm_newemac driver as the proper
> > > driver to use for PowerPC boards with the EMAC hardware.
> > 
> > Would it make any sense to rename the ibm_newemac driver ibm_emac?
> 
> Yes.

One step at a time.

And really, that seems like a bunch of busy work for little gain.  We'd
have to move the files, change the Kconfig options, update all the
in-tree defconfigs... just so it can be called ibm_emac?

I don't really care either way, but I'll leave it up to the ibm_newemac
maintainer to push that change through.  If it goes in, I'll update
other things as needed.

josh
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