[PATCH] net: cavium: fix driver name

Subsystems: networking drivers, the rest

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2 messages, 2 authors, 2019-08-18 · open the first message on its own page

[PATCH] net: cavium: fix driver name

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2019-08-15 19:50:01

The driver name gets exposed in sysfs under /sys/bus/pci/drivers
so it should look like other devices. Change it to be common
format (instead of "Cavium PTP").

This is a trivial fix that was observed by accident because
Debian kernels were building this driver into kernel (bug).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/common/cavium_ptp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/common/cavium_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/common/cavium_ptp.c
index 73632b843749..b821c9e1604c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/common/cavium_ptp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/common/cavium_ptp.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 #include "cavium_ptp.h"
 
-#define DRV_NAME	"Cavium PTP Driver"
+#define DRV_NAME "cavium_ptp"
 
 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_CAVIUM_PTP	0xA00C
 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_CAVIUM_RST	0xA00E
-- 
2.20.1

Re: [PATCH] net: cavium: fix driver name

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2019-08-18 21:02:26

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:49:49 -0700
The driver name gets exposed in sysfs under /sys/bus/pci/drivers
so it should look like other devices. Change it to be common
format (instead of "Cavium PTP").

This is a trivial fix that was observed by accident because
Debian kernels were building this driver into kernel (bug).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Applied.
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