netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] modpost: file2alias: fixup mdio alias garbled code in modules.alias

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Date:   Mon, 22 Nov 2021 15:07:32 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Yinbo Zhu <zhuyinbo@...ngson.cn>
Cc:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] modpost: file2alias: fixup mdio alias garbled
 code in modules.alias

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 08:14:57PM +0800, Yinbo Zhu wrote:
> After module compilation, module alias mechanism will generate a ugly
> mdio modules alias configure if ethernet phy was selected, this patch
> is to fixup mdio alias garbled code.
> 
> In addition, that ugly alias configure will cause ethernet phy module
> doens't match udev, phy module auto-load is fail, but add this patch
> that it is well mdio driver alias configure match phy device uevent.

What PHY do you have problems with? What is the PHY id and which
driver should be loaded.

This code has existed a long time, so suddenly saying it is wrong and
changing it needs a good explanation why it is wrong. Being ugly is
not a good reason.

    Andrew