On 01/10/2017 06:52 AM, Joao Pinto wrote:

This patch renames stmicro/stmmac to synopsys/ since it is a standard
ethernet software package regarding synopsys ethernet controllers, supporting
the majority of Synopsys Ethernet IPs. The config IDs remain the same, for
retro-compatibility, only the description was changed.

Do re really have to do this? ST Micro were the first to upstream
support for a Synopsys IP, and it was later on identified as being
"stmicro" instead of "synopsys" (during the big driver move under
drivers/net/ethernet) whichever came first in the driver essentially "wins".

As mentioned before, although git is able to track renames, git log does
not automatically have --follow, so it can be hard for people to track
down the (new) history of the driver.

Personally, I don't see much value in doing this rename, especially when
all the driver internal structures are still going to be named with
stmmac (and please don't even think about doing a s/stmmac/snps/ inside
the driver ;)).

My 2 cents.
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Florian