From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753181Ab2AaBTg (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:19:36 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:44184 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752429Ab2AaBTf (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:19:35 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:19:29 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20120130.201929.1758603770664566022.davem@davemloft.net> To: tomoya.rohm@gmail.com Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, qi.wang@intel.com, yong.y.wang@intel.com, joel.clark@intel.com, kok.howg.ewe@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ethernet/pch_gbe: Change company name OKI SEMICONDUCTOR to LAPIS Semiconductor From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <1327643159-1302-1-git-send-email-tomoya.rohm@gmail.com> <20120130.125219.2077768183344205118.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.4 on Emacs 23.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:19:33 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Tomoya MORINAGA Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:35:26 +0900 > I can understand your saying. > > If I post like below, is this patch acceptable for you ? > + tristate "OKI/LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR IOH(ML7223/ML7831) GbE" > > BTW, I think need consistency for "Change company/product name" as a > whole of linux. > Because other patches for the same series "change company name" I > posted have already accepted. > e.g.(GPIO, USB device, DMA, UART, I2C) I mainly object to moving the driver around, and failing to retain the old name especially in user visible contexts such as Kconfig variables, help text, and module parameters.