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Message-ID: <20220715123743.419537e7@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:37:43 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] net: dsa: qca8k: move driver to qca dir

On Fri, 15 Jul 2022 03:57:46 +0200 Christian Marangi wrote:
> > Does the split mean that this code will move again?
> > If so perhaps better to put this patch in the series 
> > that does the split? We're ~2 weeks away from the merge 
> > window so we don't want to end up moving the same code
> > twice in two consecutive releases.  
> 
> What to you mean with "will move again"?
>  
> The code will be split to qca8k-common.c and qca8k-8xxx.c
> And later qca8k-ipq4019.c will be proposed. 
> 
> So the files will all stay in qca/ dir.
> 
> Or should I just propose the move and the code split in one series?

Yup that's what I prefer.

> Tell me what do you prefer.