netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] fjes: Do not load fjes driver

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Message-Id: <20170322.123904.2127246481524648740.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:39:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     yasu.isimatu@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] fjes: Do not load fjes driver

From: YASUAKI ISHIMATSU <yasu.isimatu@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:28:02 -0400

> The fjes driver is used only by FUJITSU servers and almost of all
> servers in the world never use it. But currently if ACPI PNP0C02
> is defined in the ACPI table, the following message is always shown:
> 
>  "FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device Driver - version 1.2
>   - Copyright (c) 2015 FUJITSU LIMITED"
> 
> The message makes users confused because there is no reason that
> the message is shown in other vendor servers.
> 
> To avoid the confusion, the patch adds several checks.
> 
> v3:
>   - Rebase on latest net tree.
>   - Add _STA method check to avoid loading fjes driver.
> 
> v2:
>   - Order local variable declarations from longest to shortest line

Series applied, thanks.