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

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Message-ID: <20250627194826.GF1776@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:48:26 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...libre.com>
Cc: 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>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: tulip: Rename PCI driver struct to end in _driver

On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 12:22:20PM +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 xircom_driver also passes the stricter checks just fine, so no
> further changes needed.
> 
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...libre.com>

As per my comment on a similar patch for a different driver:

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

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