From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753589Ab2AaKlM (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:41:12 -0500 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:63638 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751932Ab2AaKlK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:41:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120130.201929.1758603770664566022.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1327643159-1302-1-git-send-email-tomoya.rohm@gmail.com> <20120130.125219.2077768183344205118.davem@davemloft.net> <20120130.201929.1758603770664566022.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:41:09 +0900 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ethernet/pch_gbe: Change company name OKI SEMICONDUCTOR to LAPIS Semiconductor From: Tomoya MORINAGA To: David Miller 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi David I have two questions. Q1. How should I handle "Copyright" ? Q2. As I said before, "Intel EG20T PCH" was deleted by someone. So, I want to retrieve the description. Can I do ? Thanks. tomoya 2012/1/31 David Miller : > 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.