netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: pcs: Add PCS driver for Qualcomm IPQ9574 SoC

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Message-ID: <3677dee8-f04f-45f0-8bfd-dd197ec71616@lunn.ch>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 14:43:35 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Lei Wei <quic_leiwei@...cinc.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
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	john@...ozen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: pcs: Add PCS driver for Qualcomm
 IPQ9574 SoC

On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 07:14:59PM +0800, Lei Wei wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/1/2024 9:00 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > +config PCS_QCOM_IPQ
> > > +	tristate "Qualcomm IPQ PCS"
> > 
> > Will Qualcomm only ever have one PCS driver?
> > 
> > You probably want a more specific name so that when the next PCS
> > driver comes along, you have a reasonable consistent naming scheme.
> > 
> 
> We expect one PCS driver to support the 'IPQ' family of Qualcomm processors.
> While we are initially adding support for IPQ9574 SoC, this driver will be
> easily extendable later to other SoC in the IPQ family such as IPQ5332,
> IPQ5424 and others. Therefore we used the name with suffix '_IPQ'. Hope it
> is fine.

So are you saying after IPQ comes IPR? And then IPS? In order to have
a new PCS design, Marketing will allow you to throw away the whole IPQ
branding?

	Andrew