On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 03:10:13AM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> writes:
> 
> > All the drivers support multiple chips, but mv88e6123_61_65 is the
> > only one that reflects this in its naming. Change it to be consistent
> > with the other drivers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.dide...@savoirfairelinux.com>
> 
> When mv88e6xxx will become a driver by its own supporting different
> devices, it'll be good to rename it to a reference driver as well, say
> mv88e6352.

In device tree land, the convention is to use the lowest version
number supported. So it will probably be called mv88e6085.c.

> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6123.c b/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6123.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..69a6f79dcb10
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6123.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
> 
> Note that to avoid the big diff above, you can use the -M option of
> git-format-patch to detect file renames.

Yes, i always forget that. I wounder why it is not turned on by
default? Maybe older versions of patch do not understand it?

         Andrew

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