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Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 16:20:10 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> To: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel-org, schmitz@...ian.org, davem@...emloft.net, sfr@...b.auug.org.au Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: phy: rename Asix Electronics PHY driver On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 01:14:55PM +1200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Commit 31dd83b96641 ("net-next: phy: new Asix Electronics PHY driver") > introduced a new PHY driver drivers/net/phy/asix.c that causes a module > name conflict with a pre-existiting driver (drivers/net/usb/asix.c). > > The PHY driver is used by the X-Surf 100 ethernet card driver, and loaded > by that driver via its PHY ID. A rename of the driver looks unproblematic. > > Rename PHY driver to ax88796b.c in order to resolve name conflict. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com> > Fixes: 31dd83b96641 ("net-next: phy: new Asix Electronics PHY driver") > --- > > Changes from v1: > > - merge into single commit (suggested by Andrew Lunn) Hi Michael There is a flag you can pass to git which will make it issue a rename, rather than delete and then add. That will make the patch much smaller. net-next is closed at the moment. http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/net-next.html Once it reopens, please send a v3, and it will be merged. Thanks Andrew
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