netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: atlantic: Rename PCI driver struct to end in

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Message-ID: <20250627194752.GE1776@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:47:52 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...libre.com>
Cc: Igor Russkikh <irusskikh@...vell.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Alexander Loktionov <Alexander.Loktionov@...antia.com>,
	David VomLehn <vomlehn@...as.net>,
	Dmitry Bezrukov <Dmitry.Bezrukov@...antia.com>,
	Pavel Belous <Pavel.Belous@...antia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: atlantic: Rename PCI driver struct to end in _driver

On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 11:46:41AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> This is not only a cosmetic change because the section mismatch checks
> also depend on the name and for drivers the checks are stricter than for
> ops.
> 
> However aq_pci_driver also passes the stricter checks just fine, so no
> further changes needed.
> 
> Fixes: 97bde5c4f909 ("net: ethernet: aquantia: Support for NIC-specific code")

>From a Networking subsystem point of view
this feels more like an enhancement than a bug fix.
Can we drop the Fixes tag?

> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...libre.com>