[PATCH] PCI: mediatek-gen3: change driver name to mtk-pcie-gen3
Felix Fietkau
nbd at nbd.name
Wed May 4 10:16:40 PDT 2022
On 04.05.22 19:06, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 12:05:55PM +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> This allows it to coexist with the other mtk pcie driver in the same kernel
>
> I assume this is a v3 of [1]. Please:
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that patch.
> - Follow the subject line capitalization convention, i.e.,
> "PCI: mediatek-gen3: Change ..."
>
> - Expand the commit log to say why this is important. From a C
> language level, using the same "mtk-pcie" string in both drivers
> is no problem. So please mention where it *is* a problem, e.g.,
> if it's a problem with modprobe or similar, say that. Or if it's
> to make log messages in dmesg have different driver names, say
> that.The reason is the fact that driver_register will refuse to register a
driver if one with the same name has already been registered.
> - s/pcie/PCIe/ in commit log and other English text.
>
> - Add a period at the end of the commit log sentence.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220422070908.14043-1-jianjun.wang@mediatek.com
Will take care of this and send an updated version as v3.
- Felix
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