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From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:25:15 +0200
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On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 5:41 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> But one thing I am against is changing the driver name for existing
> users.  If an existing chip is supported by the stmmac driver for
> existing users, they should still continue to use the "stmmac" driver.
>
> Therefore, if consolidation changes the driver module name for
> existing users, then that is not a good plan at all.

You have at least one supporter here. Though I jumped in to the
discussion very late, not sure if everyone have time to answer to
that.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko