Re: [PATCH 1/3] ethernet/pch_gbe: Change company name OKI SEMICONDUCTOR to LAPIS Semiconductor

Hi David

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)

thanks,
tomoya

2012/1/31 David Miller [off-list ref]:

Sorry, we're not going to get into this pattern where we move drivers
around in the tree every time the company that produces the chip
changes it's name.

If we did this then certain drivers will have moved 5 or more times
since the beginning of the Linux kernel, and there is nothing to be
gained from that except confusion.

In fact more valuable thing to do is to refer to both the old and the
new name, rather than just the new one or just the old one.  Because
you now have two sets of users, one very large set which is familiar
with the old name and a smaller set which will only know about the new
name.

Frankly, I would just leave everything alone except perhaps adding a
mention of the new name (and not deleting the old name) in the Kconfig
help text.